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.

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 have been going about for the last six months telling the whole of society that I adore you. I...

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

When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.

Charlie dear, it is I who have to be proud of you. And I am very, very proud of you. You have called me pretty; and as long as I am pretty in your eyes, I am happy. You, dear old Charlie, are not handsome, but you are good, which is far more noble.

My wife must be stupid. I mean, look, she married me, didn’t she?

Some marriages are made in heaven, but they all have to be maintained on earth. Mrs Miracle

His fingerprints covered my skin.

I fear that this is what long term relationships are all about, at base: full-time role-playing, memorized and inhabited.

M.

Some people may also be working less and not trying as hard to build wealth as they have marriage troubles. Divorce is often a long and messy process.

Dear Eloisa (said I) there’s no occasion for your crying so much about such a trifle. (for I was willing to make light of it in order to comfort her) I beg you would not mind it – You see it does not vex me in the least; though perhaps I may suffer most from...

After having so nobly disentangled themselves from the shackles of Parental Authority, by a Clandestine Marriage, they were determined never to forfeit the good opinion they had gained in the World, in so doing, by accepting any proposals of reconciliation that might be offered them by their Fathers – to their farther trial of their...

Any marriage is hard work. But what I always say is, “Keep the fights clean and the sex dirty.

As you turn into a daddy, soon now, you’ll find that, on marrying, a man and woman start actually living.

Life was not meant to be live alone.

For women, marriages foreclosed often resulted in anaccumulation of booty; for men, these failed projects of implausible optimismwere more likely to manifest themselves in material lack. It washard to resist the metaphorical impression that women got to keep thepast itself, whereas men were simply robbed of it.

They ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox.

I don’t want to be married just to be married. I can’t think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can’t talk to, or worse, someone I can’t be silent with.

The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.

A good wife always forgives her husband when she’s wrong.

If you will let it, this Blue Willow platter can represent my promise to fill your life with my trust and love and a houseful of children. – Peter Andersen

God lures us into marriage through love and sex and loneliness, or simply the fact that someone finally paid attention – all those reasons that you got married in the first place. It doesn’t really matter, he’ll do whatever it takes. He lures us into marriage and then he uses it to transform us.

First, I’m not getting married, so you can forget the wife. Second, if I was insane enough to get married, I wouldn’t have kids. Third, if I was insane enough to get married and have kids, it would be a cold day in hell I’d let you babysit.

A state Constitutional Amendment is necessary because, as we have seen elsewhere, activist judges have overturned statutory protections of marriage.

When we reach our highest potential, we will find our highest love.

Marriage did not hold much interest for Urmila but it was a social discipline she would have to conform to. She would rather seek knowledge instead of a suitor.

When coming to sex: First served, first come.

Dating is a man-made ideology: if having a lover was a prerequisite to living, one would either be in a relationship, or, six feet under.

The relationship between any two communities in the global economy is not unlike a marriage. As couples counselors advise, relationships falter when two partners are too interdependent. When any stress affecting one partner – the loss of a job, an illness, a bad-hair day – brings down the other, the couple suffers. A much healthier...

Potential enemies make the best friends and lovers. Many a blessed union begins in adversity.

They feel life is for the taking, and that everyone deserves happiness no matter what the cost. I must remember these tricks if I ever decide to have my soul surgically removed.

The real genesis is forbidden to me, vis-à-vis N´s inability to confess even the mildest transgressions.

The woman who left abusive husbands in the 60’s and 70’s improved the institution of marriage because men now know that women can leave their husbands and the women or men who stay in abusive relationships are a massive advertisement to non- consequentiality of abuse.So, if you stay in a abusive relationship you are signaling...

The true love is unconditional.Marriage is a conditional bond.

What good was living if a man didn’t have a family?

Why do people stay together? Putting aside ‘for the sake of the children’, and ‘the habit of years’ and ‘economic reasons’ as lawyers’ nonsense – it’s not much more – if one really does try to find out why it is that people don’t leave each other, one discovers a mystery.

And of course I didn’t know who would marry me now that I’d been where I had been. I didn’t know at all.

It was his wedding day, and then it was any day; it was nothing, and then it was forever.

We simply can’t abandon ship every time we encounter a storm in our marriage. Real love is about weathering the storms of life together.

When a man says to me, ‘Let us work together in the great cause you have undertaken, and let me be your companion and aid, for I admire you more than I have ever admired any other woman,’ then I shall say, ‘I am yours truly’; but he must ask me to be his equal,...

She took comfort in the familiarity of his smell, knowing that if she lost all her possessions and her home, at least she would have her family.

Women may fall when there’s no strength in men.Act II

It has always been simple, but making it hard was always your way of avoiding pain. If you want to change your life, you have to change what you are doing. It wasn’t his fault, her fault, their fault or the circumstances. It was your inability to choose. So, life chose for you. Somewhere in...

What marriage offers – and what fidelity is meant to protect – is the possibility of moments when what we have chosen and what we desire are the same. Such a convergence obviously cannot be continuous. No relationship can continue very long at its highest emotional pitch. But fidelity prepares us for the return of...

Lack of communication has a way of clipping our wings, which keeps us from flying. When things are left unspoken, we forget that everyone is destined to share the sky together.

With all the strength; Love encompasses compassion, determination, tolerance, endurance, support, faith and acceptance of whom you love.

Maybe, in the final analysis, they saw me as something I wasn’t and I tried to turn them into something they could never be. I loved them all but maybe I never understood any of them. I don’t think they understood me.

you can’t be value free when it comes to marriage

Marriage is never static. There are peaks and troughs, cycles. It is easy to forget that this shifting landscape is really only ever a reflection of the self. Our capacity for attachment determines the kind of mate we attract, and it is through this mate that we are forever transformed – marriage as alchemy, but...