Thanks to arranged marriages: There are countless women who have never been their husband’s girlfriend.

You never have to suffer because of, or be denatured by, another person, even someone you love.

Not every happy person is married, and, Not every married person is happy.

Sometimes the one thing you need for growth is the one thing you are afraid to do.

I think it is a duty I owe to my profession and to my sex to show that a woman has a right to the practice of her profession and cannot be condemned to abandon...

The prideful man qualifies himself by what people think of him, always looking for applause. There is another proud man; head bloodied by the world but eyes focused on what is good, never caring about...

I wanted a woman who could get me out of a Third World prison. Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.

Please don’t think I’m bad too.” From the other innermost part of him, the secret animal that prowls in some men was a raging wolf ready to kill. The battle line within the man had...

You silly Arthur! If you knew anything about…anything, which you don’t, you would know that I adore you. Everyone in London knows it except you. It is a public scandal the way I adore you....

I feel incendiary, a wildfire. My spirit licks at the gates of a very elaborate, customized, and distracting emotional Hades.

Successful long term relationships are all about power levels. A high power level male will attract and succeed with a high level power female.How do we define those power levels? We can’t, they are inherently...

Love has no past tense.

I feel good with my husband: I like his warmth and his bigness and his being-there and his making and his jokes and stories and what he reads and how he likes fishing and walks...

Trust is something you have to practice. Someday you’re going to fall in love with someone, and you need to understand what trust is all about. What you doing now is developing bad practices of...

Never give a lousy person the opportunity to create lousy babies.

I’d be staring at you and thinking, I should ask, I should ask, I should ask; do you want to be in a stable monogamous relationship for the rest of your life?

A covenant differs from a contract almost as much as marriage differs from prostitution.

You know your marriage is in trouble when your wife would rather listen to a cackling drug lord than accept your apology.

Madness is loving the unsolvable puzzle of your soul and replacing the lost pieces with my own.

On the nights they went to bed at the same time, Rocco would lie there and watch her go to the closet, watch her choose either silky slips or mannish shirts, like running up sex...

A purposeless virtue is a contradiction in terms. Virtue, like harmony, cannot exist alone; a virtue must lead to harmony between one creature and another. To be good for nothing is just that. If a...

Some marriages are made in heaven,Mine was made in Hong Kong, by the same people who make those little rubber pork chops they sell in the pet department at Kmart.

The doubts, strong as they were, were rousing more than hesitation. Her eyes drifted closed, fingertips sliding over the silk and lace panties she wore.Larry could never know how many times they’d been pulled aside...

He said, I always thought the woman I’d marry would hit me easy, in a bolt of lightning, and there is not lightning there is not even thunder there is not even rain.

It is a pity he did not write in pencil. As you have no doubt frequently observed, the impression usually goes through — a fact which has dissolved many a happy marriage.

When I was twelve, my sixth-grade English class went on a field trip to see Franco Zeffirelli’s film adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. From that moment forward I dreamed that someday I’d meet my...

Marriage as a team means working and playing together toward a winning season.

Women are also property in our bible; adultery is a property crime in the Old Testament, not a sex crime.

Miss Cecily,” she gasped, and then her eyes went to Will. She clapped a hand over her mouth, turned, and bolted back into the house. “Oh, dear,” said Tessa. “I have that effect on women,”...

Charlotte said that if I chose, I could cease to be a Gray and take the name my mother should have had before she was married. I could be a Starkweather. I could have a...

A wise mother is the unifying force between father and children; her seed of love produces a harvest of trust.

We made love. Extraordinary love.

As ever, books remained a medium through which Theodore and Edith connected and interpreted larger world.

A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.

[A]s people are beginning to see that the sexes form in a certain sense a continuous group, so they are beginning to see that Love and Friendship which have been so often set apart from...

It wasn’t a lack of attraction to her husband that caused her problems. It was life. It was traffic. It was the Miami Dade Water and Sewer bills, it was trying to get ahead, and...

Marry on Monday for health, Tuesday for wealth,Wednesday the best day of all,Thursday for crosses,Friday for losses, and Saturday for no luck at all.

Finding a life partner is like choosing a bed. You need one as a friend either in times of health or sickness. Freshness or weariness. Happiness or sadness. And we can be certain that we’ve...

Young man, the fact that she did not accept your proposal for a relationship does not define why you should hate her. She may not become your BRIDE, but she can be the BRIDGE you...

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

We went out to a romantic dinner, and do you know how you can just tell when it’s the perfect moment to propose? Well, it wasn’t one of those moments—at least not with her. I...

A relationship that violates values is simply headed for crisis.

He told me he was getting married, and I told him I approved of his upcoming divorce.

All love on this earth involves choice. When, for example, a young man expresses his love to a young woman and asks her to become his wife, he is not just making an affirmation of...

Marriage was not the combination of two entities into one; it was instead the creation of a third entity whose sole purpose was to sooth and inspire the two individuals.

I’m certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

When both you and your spouse actively focus on developing godly character qualities, the foundation of your marriage will be twice as strong.

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.

Whatever Jesus lays His hands upon, lives. If He lays is hands upon a marriage, it lives. If He is allowed to lay His hands on the family, it lives.

His eagerness had turned into a routine; he embraced her at the same time every day. It was a habit like any other, a favourite pudding after the monotony of dinner.