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...The only slogan we need in order to be happy in our home is: Love Each Other -three simple words. Apply the ingredients of love. Sacrifice for each other. Make each other happy.

The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.

The only thing my husband and I have in common is that we were married on the same day.

The only time that most women give their orating husbands undivided attention is when the old boys mumble in their sleep.

The ordinary marriage is an unconscious bondage: you cannot live alone so you become dependent on the other; the other cannot live alone so he or she becomes dependent on you. And we hate the person on which we are dependent; nobody likes to depend on anybody. Our deepest desire is to have freedom, total freedom - and dependence is against freedom.

The people people have for friends Your common sense appall But the people people marry Are the queerest folk of all.

The plays of children are nonsense, but very educative nonsense. So it is with the largest and solemnest things, with commerce, government, church, marriage, and so with the history of every man's bread, and the ways by which he is to come by it.

The point is to show who is the cross and who the crucified.

The point is that getting married for lust or money or social status or even love is usually trouble. The point is that marriage is a maze into which we wander - a maze that is best got through with a great companion.

The present relationship existing between husband and wife, where one claims a command over the actions of the other, is nothing more than a remnant of the old leaven of slavery. It is necessarily destructive of refined love; for how can a man continue to regard as his type of the ideal a being whom he has, be denying an equality of privilege with himself, degraded to something below himself?

The prince exults whomever he selects as his consort, but the queen, rather than elevating the subject of her choice, humiliates him as a man. By all that is right, a man is not intended to be the husband of his wife, but a woman is to be her husband's wife.

The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.

The pure love of one soul can offset the hatred of millions.

The quality of a marriage is proven by its ability to tolerate an occasional "exception.

The real essence of any marriage that has struggled, however unsuccessfully, towards happiness, lies in the growth of a wordless understanding that what is acceptable to one partner will be acceptable to the other.

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make on your wedding day, and over and over again and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband.

The quickest way to a man's heart is through his chest.

the real killer was when you married the wrong person but had the right children.

The reason for much matrimony is patrimony.

There are a hundred paths through the world that are easier than loving. But who wants easier?

There are few who would not rather be taken in adultery than in provocation.

There are two things for a marriage to be good. One is to work hard on it. The other one is to marry above you. And I succeeded at both of those.

The reason they're called the opposite sex is because every time you think you have your wife fooled - it's just the opposite!

There comes a time when a man and woman realize that their separate schemes can be better achieved as a conspiracy.

There are few wives so perfect as not to give their husbands at least once a day good reason to repent of ever having married, or at least of envying those who are unmarried.

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.

There are women whose infidelities are the only link they still have with their husbands.

There can be no summary and dramatic end to a marriage - only a slow and painful unravelling of a tangled skein of threads too stubborn to be broken.

There cannot be peace where there is not trust; there cannot be freedom where there is not loyalty

There is a vast difference between the savage and the civilized man, but it is never apparent to their wives until after breakfast.

There is a radicalism in all getting, and a conservatism in all keeping. Lovemaking is radical, while marriage is conservative.

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.

There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day knowing someone on the other side of that door is waiting for the sound of his footsteps.

There is no greater feeling than when a groom turns to see his bride and has tears in his eyes because she is so beautiful.

There is no limit to what the Lord can do in and with and through any individual or any married couple who surrender themselves and their resources completely to His will and His way.

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

There is no such cozy combination as man and wife.

There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

There's a coffin in the back of the church as the wedding is going on ... Look, I'm a romantic. I like marriage...In the movies.

The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.

There is yet another kind of matrimonial dialect (which naturally succeeds this of talking at each other), which may very properlybe styled The Language Contradictory.... In the former, however plain the object of satire may be exhibited to the whole company, yet there always remains some little covering.... But in this last method, the defiance becomes more open and the impetuosity with which these contradictions are uttered (although the subjects of them are often of the most indifferent nature) evidently prove that they arise from passion.

The secret to a happy marriage is if you can be at peace with someone within four walls, if you are content because the one you love is near to you, either upstairs or downstairs, or in the same room, and you feel that warmth that you don't find very often, then that is what love is all about.

There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.

There were times after my marriage ended where, you know, I really felt like I was at the bottom of a mountain, there was a great big, fog up there, and I'm never going to cross to the other side.

The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.