Marriage
Some pray to marry the man they love, my prayer will somewhat vary:
I humbly pray to Heaven above that I love the man I marry.
--Rose Stokes
A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendships, all the
enjoyment of sense and reason -
and indeed all the sweets of life.
--Joseph Addison (The Spectator Magazine)
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they
are joined together to strengthen each other in all labour, to minister
to each other in all sorrow, to share with each other in all gladness,
to be one with each other in the silent unspoken memories?
-- George Eliot
Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
--Robert Browning
If love is a dream, then marriage is the alarm clock.
--John Hagee
Love is like a game of chess:
One false move and you're mated.
--Unknown
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything:
familiarity.
--Honoré de Balzac
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get
in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
--Michel de Montaigne
Marriage is like the army. Everybody complains, but you'd be surprised
at how many re-enlist.
--Anonymous
I would like to have engraved inside every wedding band, "Be kind to
one another." This is the Golden Rule of marriage and the secret
of making love last through the years.
--Randolph Roy
Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.
--Abraham Lincoln
Opposites attract, but after marriage, opposites
attack. Most of the time, we are attracted to people who don't have
the things that we have. Incompatibility is why we get married,
but it's also used as a reason to divorce.
Incompatibility is just a lack of communication.
If we just try to love [our spouse] the way we want to be loved,
we are in trouble. Unless you communicate, it's difficult to know
how to love another person.
--Dr. Charles Lowery.
