“Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.”
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“Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.”
“Marriage is not about age it's about finding the right person.”
“Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above this is the right time for marriage.”
“Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.”
“My grandparents got married at a very young age, and a lot of what I think about marriage is based on their relationship. I watched them over the years and saw how they dealt with everything together, as a team.”
“My grandparents got married at a very young age, and a lot of what I think about marriage is based on their relationship.”
“No Congress ever has seen fit to amend the Constitution to address any issue related to marriage. No Constitutional Amendment was needed to ban polygamy or bigamy, nor was a Constitutional Amendment needed to set a uniform age of majority to ban child marriages.”
“Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.”
“I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage.”
“I think the Mother is gradually revealing itself to me and taking over. But it is not the Mother alone. It is the Mother and the Father, the male and the female, sort of gradually having their marriage.”
“I think that marriage is an amazing institution and should be preserved, and you can have great marriages, and you must because sharing your life with someone is like the greatest thing. And I loved being able to set a good example for that on television.”
“More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.”
“Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.”
“Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.”
“Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.”
“Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?”
“The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.”
“One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.”
“Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.”
“The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.”
“Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom wait until they have been married longer.”
“Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!”
“Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.”