An industrious mother is an initiator of a good course; always charting new course for her loved ones.

I hope you outlive me so I never have to know what life is like without you.

I read them (articles TR wrote on his honeymoon) all over to Edith and her corrections and help were most valuable to me.

I tend to make my joy a private experience and hoard all the fruit for myself, forgetting that the tree doesn’t eat its own fruit but presents it to others.

People seem to set there standards to high. They let Society distort there idea of finding that life partner.If you’re willing to let go of the conformity and individualize your ideas that’s when you will...

Every success and failure of any relationship is two-sided. No matter how thin, the pancake always has two sides. Yes, I blew my marriages. And so did they.

He could totally be your boyfriend,” [Angel] went on with annoying persistance. “You guys could get married. I could be like a junior bridesmaid. Total could be your flower dog.””I’m only a kid!” I shrieked....

My dad, who my mom always refers to as DH for Darling Husband, was protrayed as a ‘let’s look on the bright side of things’ kind of guy, the pillar my everbumbling mother leans on...

Mara, that’s the life I want to give you. That’s what I’m offering you. I want to fill you life with color and warmth. I want to fill it with light. Give me a chance

If you are one of earth’s inhabitants, how blest your father, and your gentle mother, blest all your kin. I know what happiness must send the warm tears to their eyes, each time they see...

Hortense was a wife; Valerie a mistress.Many men desire to have these two editions of the same work, although it is proof of deep inferiority in a man if he cannot make his wife his...

If I weren’t married, and I didn’t have a girlfriend, I’d ask that girl out. But what can I do? I’m an honorable guy.

Couples often live out years of falsehood trying to protect and save a relationship, all the while destroying any chance of real relationship.

And so, as quietly as he had lived, he slipped out of town, leaving only a note behind:Well, that’s that. I’m off, and if you don’t believe I’m leaving, just count the days I’m gone....

I am a jealous husband wife, and I feel your pain. All of it, for all of you.

If she lives, she shall be my wedded wife. If she dies–mother, I can’t speak of what I shall feel if she dies.” His voice was choked in his throat.

I think that’s why so many couples fight, because they want their partners to validate them and affirm them, and if they don’t get that, they feel as though they’re going to die. And so...

If I am capable of loving you Lord MacCaulay, of devoting myself to you, it will never be under the terms to which other women submit, for I am battle-born – a female warrior sworn...

I had a dream about you. We were married and I walked into the room to see you in my new black dress and high heels and I said “That’s not what I meant when...

Husbands and wives, recognize that in marriage you have become one flesh. If you live for your private pleasure at the expense of your spouse, you are living against yourself and destroying your joy. But...

Then there was the war, and I married it because there was nothing else when I reached the age of falling in love.

Chese now,” quod she, “oon of thise thynges tweye:To han me foul and old til that I deye,And be to yow a trewe, humble wyf,And nevere yow displese in al my lyf,Or elles ye wol...

To suffer together is to suffer with beauty,

Can we make promises to each other, as if we were truly married? Can we swear to be true and faithful and love only each other and all those things? Because I’m in such pain,...

what is the matter with me? Am I too particular? 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...

You can make your marriage a little bit of heaven on earth by following God’s plan of teamwork.

There is no such thing as escape after all, only an exchange of one set of difficulties for another. It wasn’t Mark or the farm or marriage I was trying to shake loose from but...

Put work into your dreams.

There is no greater place for damage (than marriage) because there is no greater place for glory.

When you marry a woman out of pity, then its a pity that you’ll send her away very soon.

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.

While it only takes one spouse to be friendly, it takes both spouses to be friends. When both spouses are unfriendly, the marriage is marked by conflict and coldness. When one spouse is friendly and...

I want to try with someone who loves me enough to try with me. I want to grow old looking at the same face every morning. I want to grow old looking at the same...

A salary is, to a man’s employer, what his wife’s vagina is to his wife: a tool used to (1) reward; and (2) control him.

Marriage converts a player into a polygamist.

You don’t seem to realise, that in married life three is company and two is none.

Jack prese la lettera, borbottò uno «scusami» e si ritirò. Tornò poco dopo, più alto, più dritto nella persona, il volto raggiante. «Signore Iddio, Stephen, è la lettera più bella che io abbia mai ricevuto....

I travel back in time, falling back into what I know for certain, the historical data I cling to in order to not go mad, not assume I made a suicidal and well-informed error in...

I review what I know once again, confronting the monolith now alien and almost unconnected to me: my marriage.

The best thing about flying first class….was that you could be as nutty as a fruitcake and were still treated like the Queen of Sheba.

In the modern world, youth should know the nature of true love. Many from abroad, mix with persons of the opposite sex, calling them boy friend and girl friend. If you really love each other...

What do you mean, ‘Angle of Repose?’ she asked me when I dreamed we were talking about Grandmother’s life, and I said it was the angle at which a man or woman finally lies down....

First time since I come to Am’rica, I not with husband or Rekha or in restaurant or store or car or apartment. I’s all alone and I loves it. First time I feel everything not...

Adrian Mole’s father was so angry that so many pepole got divorced nowadays. HE had been unhappilly married for 30 years, why should everybody else get away?

Ego, being love’s kryptonite; two souls must be on the same page of humility.

A rich man is most coveted but I’d be damned if I be a poor woman

Marriage is the perfection of what love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought.

This good fellowship – camaraderie – usually occurring through the similarity of pursuits is unfortunately seldom super-added to love between the sexes, because men and women associate, not in their labors but in their pleasures...

LEONATOWell, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband.BEATRICENot till God make men of some other metal than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a pierce...

The biggest lie women tell themselves about men: When I get what I want, I will be happy.