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At first an ordeal and then an accomplishment, the daily run becomes a staple, like bread, or wine, a fine marriage, or air. It is also a free pass to friendship.

At least it's better to be married than to be dead.

At the creation of man and woman, unity for them in marriage was not given as hope; it was a command! 'Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh

At the beginning of a marriage ask yourself whether this woman will be interesting to talk to from now until old age. Everything else in marriage is transitory: most of the time is spent in conversation.

At the beginning, your love supports your marriage. Later on, your marriage supports your love.

A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise.

A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.

A woman is not a whole woman without the experience of marriage. In the case of a bad marriage, you win if you lose. Of the two alternatives - bad marriage or none - I believe bad marriage would be better. It is a bitter experience and a high price to pay for fulfillment, but it is the better alternative.

At the end of a marriage it is difficult to recall the beginning.

A woman ought to look up to her husband, if only a half-inch.

A woman is never so happy as when she is being wooed. Then she is mistress of all she surveys, the cynosure of all eyes, until that day of days when she sails down the aisle, a vision in white, lovely as the stefanotis she carries, borne translucent on her father's manly arm to be handed over to her new father-surrogate. If she is clever, and if her husband has the time and the resources, she will insist on being wooed all her life; more likely she will discover that marriage is not romantic, that husbands forget birthdays and aniversaries and seldom pay compliments, are often perfunctory.

A woman says what is on her heart while a man says what is on his mind.

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

A woman seldom comes out of a sullen spell until she's sure her husband has suffered as much as she thinks he should.

A woman's hair net tangled in a man's spectacles on top of the bedroom dresser.

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

Bad enough to make mistakes, without going ahead and marrying them.

Banks have a new image. Now you have 'a friend,' your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens?

Because love is dangerous, insecure.... And nobody knows where love will lead. It is just like a cloud - moving with no destination. Love is a hidden cloud, whereabouts unknown. Nobody knows where it is at any moment of time. Unpredictable - no astrologer can predict anything about love. About marriage? - astrologers are very, very helpful; they can predict.

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

A wife loves out of duty, and duty leads to constraint, and constraint kills desire.

A wise woman will always let her husband have her way.

A wife of your own stature is the greatest of all blessings.

Before marriage, a man will lie awake thinking about something you said; after marriage , he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Being 'one flesh' in marriage means that the relationship is not the source of security, affirmation, control, or value. Those issues of identity need to be rooted in Christ.

Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.

Being single isn't the cause of loneliness, and marriage is not necessarily the cure. There are many lonely married people as well.

Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter.

Benchley and I had an office in the old Life magazine that was so tiny, if it were an inch smaller it would have been adultery.

Being a good husband is like being a good stand-up comic - you need ten years before you can even call yourself a beginner.

Between married persons, the cement of friendship is by the laws supposed so strong as to abolish all division of possessions: andhas often, in reality, the force ascribed to it.

Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.

Biographers know nothing about the intimate sex lives of their own wives, but they think they know all about Stendhal's or Faulkner's.

Both of my marriages have taught me the same lesson twice over really harsh: listen to your instincts. Don't be a people pleaser.

Both in the lower and the middle classes the wiseacres urge young men 'to think it over' before taking the decisive step. Thus they foster the delusion that the choice of a wife or husband may be governed by a certain number of accurately weighable pros and cons. This is a crude delusion on the part of common sense.

Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.

Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.

Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.

... business training in early life should not be regarded solely as insurance against destitution in the case of an emergency. For from business experience women can gain, too, knowledge of the world and of human beings, which should be of immeasurable value to their marriage careers. Self-discipline, co-operation, adaptability, efficiency, economic management,--if she learns these in her business life she is liable for many less heartbreaks and disappointments in her married life.

But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?

Behind every great man there is a surprised woman.

But even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognized by the police, there must be degrees in the freedom and sympathy realized, and some principle to guide simple folk in their selection.

But I am all for love, and I am against marriage, particularly the arranged kind, because the arranged marriage gives you satisfaction. And love? - love can never satisfy you. It gives you more and more thirst for a better and better love, it makes you more and more long for it, it gives you tremendous discontentment. And that discontent is the beginning of the search for God. When love fails many times, you start looking for a new kind of lover, a new kind of love, a new quality of love. That love affair is prayer, meditation, sannyas.

But love, I’ve come to understand, is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day.

Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

Cæsar might have married her [Cleopatra], but he had a wife at home. There's always something.

Can't you read? The score demands 'con amore,' and what are you doing? You are playing it like married men!