Arguments could fill a marriage like water, running through everything, always, with no taste or color but lots of noise.
We can practice tolerance while still holding true to cultural values that protect the institution of marriage as a union between only a man and a woman.
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
My parents deeply and truly loved each other, and if my mother hadn't died they would have been together forever. They were together for as much of forever as was given to them. They really loved my brother and me and were very good to us. It gave the model of how to have a happy marriage and family, but it also set the bar very high.
[On marriage:] Someone once said that it was like a crowded church - those outside were endeavouring to get in, and those inside were making violent efforts to get out.
Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.
The highest happiness on earth is the happiness of marriage.
Such is the nature of the marriage relation that a breach once made cannot be healed, and it is the height of folly to waste one's life in vain efforts to make a binary compound of two diverse elements. What would we think of the chemist who should sit twenty years trying to mix oil and water, and insist upon it that his happiness depended upon the result of the experiment?
I believe in traditional marriage.
Love can be angry. . . with a kind of anger in which there is no gall, like the dove's and not the ravens.
I believe that sex is for marriage, and that's regardless of whether it's homosexual or hetero sexual.
For "I" to become "we" and yet remain "I," is one of the great challenges of marriage.
I have thrust myself into this maze, Haply to wive and thrive as best I may.
When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.
In the early years, you fight because you don't understand each other. In the later years, you fight because you do.
What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme - courtship; and promise to end in the same catastrophe - marriage.
For a male and female to live continuously together is biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural condition.
Marriage does not so much bring you into confrontation with your spouse as confront you with yourself.
I suspect that marriage is like parenthood: every last one of us is an amateur at it.