Having someone to love and hold, to make you feel ‘whole’ and not alone, is worth every damn argument ever to be had.

I have leveled with the girls – from Anchorage to Amarillo.I tell them that all marriages are happyIt’s the living together afterward that’s tough.I tell them that a good marriage is not a gift,It’s an...

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

But love does not mean marriage, a baby, forever. Love means you make me happy until you don’t.

Give me Pablo Neruda, picnic beneath a full moon & iridescent stars, black olives, cherries, dark things, canoe on a river…that’s romance.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

I’m lost, will you be my mother” type.

Out of the frying pan into the fire! What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? No different!

A mother has the best of all smiles; she is a wonderful friend, lover and adviser.

All I want is to love you and fill you with happiness.

Still it is true that many same-sex couples want nothing more than to join society as fully integrated socially responsible family-centered taxpaying Little League-coaching nation-serving respectably married citizens. So why not welcome them in Why...

The conception of marriage that he formed as a young person and envisioned as an adult has been marred by circumstances that he believes could have been overcome without divorce. Yet, he still believes in...

Better to be happy with the cod fish in your plate now, than to linger for the taste of a tuna that is still swimming in the sea.

You are no ruin sir–no lighting-struck tree: you are green and vigorous. Plants will grow about your roots, whether you ask them or not, because they take delight in your bountiful shadow; and as they...

I believe in love. I believe in hard times and love winning. I believe marriage is hard. I believe people make mistakes. I believe people can want two things at once. I believe people are...

We live in a world of contrast and it’s sad we are among people who can’t seem to grasp the differences surrounding them.

Faithfulness in Christian marriage entails that: great mortification. For a Christian man there is no escape. Marriage may help to sanctify and direct to its proper object his sexual desires; its grace may help him...

If she looked further than the wedding, it was to see marriage as the beginning of individual existence, this skirmish from which one one’s spurs, from which one set out on the true quests of...

My love is like an empty bottle of wine. If you’re wondering, my ex wife drank it all.

You cannot enjoy true love in relationship if you don’t add honest flavours to it. You can genuinely maintain what you can sincerely entertain!

It never occurs to one to think whether she is pretty or ugly. One just surrenders to her charm.

Hope is putting Faith “on the line” and expecting results!(from Mission Possible – Spiritual Covering)

But in the end I’d marry her to the one she herself loved. To a father, the man his daughter falls in love with herself always seems the worst. That’s how it is.

To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.

For the first time in history, middle-class women do not need men in the traditional ways – for safety, for money, for a life. So they’re demanding instead what they always wanted but couldn’t ask...

Poverty is a great evil, but to a woman of education and feeling it ought not, it cannot be the greatest.—I would rather be a teacher at a school (and I can think of nothing...

The loneliness of command had made Eisenhower emotionally self-sufficient.

I learned that day that there is no more lonely state than being in a lonely marriage.

We are members of God’s family. One faith, one hope and one baptism.

Two TreesA portion of your soul has beenentwined with mineA gentle kind of togetherness, whileseparately we stand.As two trees deeply rooted inseparate plots of ground,While their topmost branchescome together,Forming a miracle of laceagainst the heavens.

Nice people don’t necessarily fall in love with nice people.

Yes, there is something in me hateful, repulsive,” thought Ljewin, as he came away from the Schtscherbazkijs’, and walked in the direction of his brother’s lodgings. “And I don’t get on with other people. Pride,...

With all due respect,” Christopher muttered, “this conversation is leading nowhere. At least one of you should point out that Beatrix deserves a better man.””That’s what I said about my wife,” Leo remarked. “Which is...

The closer a husband is to God, the closer he will grow to his wife.

Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between...

My parents have been married forty-two years. I wonder how many of those were happy.

In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.

What made marriage so difficult back then was yet again that instigator of so many other sorts of heartbreak: the oversize brain.

I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women, and heterosexual men and women marrying another are entitled to the same exact rights, all the civil rights, all the civil...

I’m a flaming faggot, Irving. I was sure you were on to that. I don’t go around waving the flag, of course, and I definitely do not proselytize. Homosexuality is, to me, an inner satisfaction,...

I didn’t appear to need anyone: I could do it all myself. I could do everything. I was both halves: did that mean I was whole?

Too many believe that love is a condition, a feeling that involves 100 percent of the heart, something that happens to you. They disassociate love from the mind and, therefore, from agency. In commanding us...

A humanitarian seldom makes a good lover. For a lover’s world revolves around their lover, while a humanitarian’s world revolves around the world.

Courting is an activity where a man and a woman flaunt their virtues. Dating is an activity where life exposes the other’s vices.

The lives of scientists, considered as Lives, almost always make dull reading. For one thing, the careers of the famous and the merely ordinary fall into much the same pattern, give or take an honorary...

I love you as the mother of my child”: the kiss of death.Mother of His Child: demotion. I am beginning to see this truism: Mothers are not always wives. I have been stripped of a...

The abandonment came, and now this shabby bacchanal.

Love coaxes and even hood-winks us into the making of a decision so radical that if left to our own devices we would never have entertained it for a moment.

Not everyone believed in marriage then. To marry was to say you believed in the future and in the past, too – that history and tradition and hope could stay knit together to hold you...

If I marry: He must be so tall that when he is on his knees, as one has said he reaches all the way to heaven. His shoulders must be broad enough to bear the...