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For 50 percent of Americans marriage is forever, for the rest of us there is another adventure.

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

For a male and female to live continuously together is biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural condition.

For everything that God desires to do in the earth, He enters into partnership with those to whom He has already given dominion.

Forget not that thy marriage, thy wealth, thy life are not for sense-pleasure, are not for thy individual personal happiness.

For "I" to become "we" and yet remain "I," is one of the great challenges of marriage.

For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end.

For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both.

For most people, a life lived alone, with passing strangers or passing lovers, is incoherent and ultimately unbearable. Someone must be there to know what we have done for those we love.

For the first year of marriage I had basically a bad attitude. I tended to place my wife underneath a pedestal.

For the marriage bed ordained by fate for men and women is stronger than an oath and guarded by Justice.

For the longest time, marriage has had a guilty conscience about itself. Should we believe it?--Yes, we should believe it.

Forty-five States, as the gentleman just said, have determined by people that were elected by the people of that State that marriage is the definition of one man and one woman.

For what is wedlock forced but a hell, An age of discord and continual strife? Whereas the contrary bringeth bliss, And is a pattern of celestial peace.

[F]or women, like tradesmen, draw in the injudicious to buy their goods by the high value they themselves set upon them.... They endeavor strongly to fix in the minds of their enamoratos their own high value, and then contrive as much as possible to make them believe that they have so many purchasers at hand that the goods--if they do not make haste--will all be gone.

For you wake one day, look around and say, somebody wonderful married me.

Friendship is a deep oneness that develops when two people, speaking the truth in love to one another, journey together to the same horizon.

From infancy, almost, the average girl is told that marriage is her ultimate goal; therefore her training and education must be directed toward that end. Like the mute beast fattened for slaughter, she is prepared for that.

Getting a divorce is nearly always as cheerful and useful an occupation as breaking valuable china.

Generally, dictatorships do not work in marriage - or, for that matter, in any other relationship.

Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.

Getting married is a lot like getting into a tub of hot water. After you get used to it, it ain't so hot.

Getting married is like putting one's hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.

Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want then when you see what the other person has, you wish you had ordered that.

Gift the love of your life with undistracted, untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.

Given the expectations of society at large, men are generally correct in their assumption that it is important for a woman to have a man. What they do not understand is how pathetically little difference it makes what man.

Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.

God created sex. Priests created marriage.

God had no problem with the man's separateness, his uniqueness, or his wholeness.

God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if he finds her.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Good Nature, and Evenness of Temper, will give you an easie Companion for Life; Vertue and good Sense, an agreeable Friend; Love and Constancy, a good Wife or Husband. Where we meet one Person with all these Accomplishments, we find an Hundred without any one of them.

Going home, it's what everybody's trying to do from the day they're born to the day they die, but going home together - that's marriage.

God's great cosmic joke on the human race was requiring that men and women live together in marriage

Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.

grow old with me. the best is yet to be. the last of life for which the first was made.

Happiness: "You Bring Your Own Weather To The Picnic.

Happy is the man with a wife to tell him what to do and a secretary to do it.

Harry and I have been sweethearts and married more than forty years - and no matter where I was, when I put out my hand Harry's was there to grasp it.

Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and the sea is not within sight; that in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin.

Headship is not rulership; it is leadership.

Heather knows why and when her marriage ended with Richie and she knows why my marriage ended with Charlie.

Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.

He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.

He married a woman to stop her getting away Now she's there all day.

He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.

Honey, what happened to "ladies first"? Husband replies, "That's the reason why the worlds a mess today, because a lady went first!

How happy a thing were a wedding, And a bedding, If a man might purchase a wife For a twelvemonth and a day

How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own?

Husband and wife are like the two equal parts of a soybean. If the two parts are put under the earth separately, they will not grow. The soybean will grow only when the parts are covered by the skin. Marriage is the skin which covers each of them and makes them one.