Don’t get mad about the infestation of fleas if you keep shopping at the dog pound.

No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they...

If he can’t handle you at your worst then he does not deserve you at your best. Real love means seeing beyond the words spoken out of pain, and instead seeing a person’s soul.

Those dreaming of the perfect match are outnumbered by those who don’t really want it at all, though perhaps they can’t admit it. After all, our culture makes individual freedom, autonomy and fulfillment the very...

One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one’s life with her.

Every culture has some ritual for joining two people together and making them stay that way, and ours is giving tax breaks.

The papers say we’re married, but it’s the heart that writes the love story.

Better be a desperate single with options than a desperate married with no options.

The children we bring into the world are small replicas of ourselves and our husbands; the pride and joy of grandfathers and grandmothers. We dream of being mothers, and for most of us that dreams...

In my day, husbands and wives showed each other a suitable level of indifference.

As soon as we confront concrete marriages with other foreign images-such as well-being, happiness, a home for children-marriage appears to be senseless, withered, moribund, and kept alive largely by a great apparatus of psychologists and...

I could only defend myself so much. It was my word against his. There was no evidence, nor was there any proof. My word meant very little.

Every fairy tale, it seems, concludes with the bland phrase “happily ever after.” Yet every couple I have ever known would agree that nothing about marriage is forever happy. There are moments of bliss, to...

The moment we decide to throw more energy into fighting for our mate than with him, the crack of a fist on the enemy’s jaw splits the ears of angels.

On page 607, alluding to the end of my first marriage (and carefully remembering to state that that’s none of his business), he very sweetly says that I ‘might leave a wife, but not a...

[I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin.

There’s a beautiful poem at the beginning of a collection of books we call the Bible. In that poem, it is written: “Then God said, ‘Let us make man.’” God then recognized that it was...

The reason why women think men should spend a lot of money on an engagement ring is because women are the ones who get to clean up all the poop (stains and toilet bowl swirls...

Women who seek advice from single women about getting a man is like asking a homeless man how to be rich.

I want to meet and marry a girl with the same last name as me, so I can show how modern and feminist I am by taking on her last name after marriage.

(On getting married at 19) We told ourselves we had forever and we never looked back. The problem was that we never really looked ahead.

I’ve always believed the two best anti-poverty programs are work and marriage.

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...

The groom should not see you in the dress just before the wedding, that’s bad luck. You know what’s worst luck? Is getting married, itself. I’ve read studies. It’s like 2 out of 3 of...

Marriage is a partnership; not a sole proprietorship.

As soon as we met, she probably imagined herself marrying me. Then within five minutes, she was probably already envisioning divorce.

Hortense and Berthe nodded, as though profoundly impressed by the wisdom of their mother’s pronouncements. She had long since convinced them of the absolute inferiority of men, whose sole function was to marry and to...

Arik and Cadie always knew they wouldn’t be one of those couples that let problems between them fester. They would immediately address any issues that arose, bring them out into the open, discuss them until...

Lucy could see that love unconfined, love outside convention, might well make a woman an unfit mother; you were one kind of woman or another: you were good or you were bad, as the world...

Your ultimate goal for marriage is that both of you—as husband and wife—commit to keep growing spiritually.

An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and...

Then Frederica went towards him, holding out her hand, and he raised his eyes from Felix’s eager countenance, and smiled at her, causing Mr. Moreton to suffer a shock. It was not at all the...

What really holds their marriage together are mutual respect of an awesome depth, a shared sense of humor, faith that they were brought together by a force greater than themselves, and a love so unwavering...

(On having being just proposed to)’Have you been thinking of this for long?’ she managed jerkily, praying for the shock to recede so that she could behave a little more normally.’Let’s say it crept up...

See, a marriage needs love. And God. And a little money. That’s all. The rest you can deal with. It’s not about black or white. It’s about God and don’t let anyone tell you different....

Love is a spark of light.

My sudden, unforeseen capitulation had knocked me backward, and I had nothing to hold on to. My internal weather was eerily calm, as if in a tornado’s aftermath, birdsong, sunshine, supersaturated colors, wreckage all around,...

It’s a perfect marriage between HUD and Habitat in that the grants offer families a hand up, not a hand out.

Communication is not so much about what you say, as what you don’t say.

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think youcontrol it.

But she left him. That night the angels came back for her, like she’d asked them to. And nobody who saw the heartbreak on Grandpa’s face when Granny breathed her last would have thought for...

Marriage can wait, education cannot.

You did not invent marriage. God did.

What do you think my chances might be of finding a soul mate in the group of you? I’ll be lucky if I can just find someone who’ll be able to stand me for the...

It’s obvious those opposed to traditional marriage are trying to confuse voters.

Before I got married I had six theories about raising children; now, I have six children and no theories.

It’s one thing to have a divinely inspired love given to you to experience and share; it’s something else altogether to recognize it when it appears. Our job is to go on being humbled and...

bride price”) is a retired broke father’s last hope to paying off his debts.

If every lover was treated like they matter — everyday; valentine’s day wouldn’t be so ‘special.

Not every woman is obsessed with shoes. But every woman is more obsessed with shoes than her husband is (although that’s not too difficult to accomplish, since your husband has exactly two pairs–black shoes that...