When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place

When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place

He that takes a wife, takes care

I have no useful theories about love and marriage.

May my heart be your shelter, and my arms be your home.

We never get sick of each other. That's how sick we are.

The voice that breathed o'er Eden, That earliest wedding day.

Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.

Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

For many little girls, life with father is a dress rehearsal for love and marriage.

Marriage is like a violin. After the beautiful music is over, the strings are still attached.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.

My second ex-wife was really kind of like a ship passing in the night. Only she turned out to be the Exxon Valdez.

You don’t marry for love. What does love got to do with marriage? I spit on love and marriage. You marry for money.

A wedding invitation is sent by people who have been saying, "Do we have to ask them?" to people whose first response is, "How much do you think we have to spend on them?

There are a few rules I know to be true about love and marriage... Your values must be alike. And the biggest one of those values, Mitch?" Yes? "Your belief in the importance of your marriage.

There is that kind of happiness. There is the love and marriage and family kind of happiness, which is exceedingly boring to describe but nonetheless is important to have and dreadful not to have.

Yes: but aren't love and marriage notoriously synonymous in the minds of most women? Certainly very few men get the first without promising the second: love, that is--if it's just a matter of spreading her legs, almost any woman will do that for nothing.

I have no way of knowing whether or not you married the wrong person. But I do know that if you treat the wrong person like the right person, you could well end up having married the right person after all. It is far more important to BE the right kind of person than it is to marry the right person.

there are a few rules I know to be true about love and marriage: If you don't respect the other person, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. If you don't know how to compromise, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. If you can't talk openly about what goes on between you, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. And if you don't have a common set of values in life, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. Your values must be alike.' - Morrie Schwartz

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