Marriage Quotes - Page 27

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.

At night, I open the window and ask the moon to come and press its face against mine. Breathe into me. Close the language-door and open the love-window. The moon won't use the door, only the window.

Without the will, marriage is a mockery; without emotion, it is a drudgery. You need both.

Marriage equality does not diminish the worth of your relationships; it simply recognises the worth of ours.

Marriage is one of the most sacred human institutions. I asked our Senators, as many South Dakotans have done, to protect marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

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

I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with.

New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions.

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

In solitude, where we are least alone.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

God, I hope he dies the night before one of his kids get married.

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.

Oh! How many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring.

Marriage equality is about more than just marriage. It's about something greater. It's about acceptance.

I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.

Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.

... unhappiness is like marriage. We believe we chose it, but then it is choosing us. That is how it is, we can do nothing about it.

Marriage has the power to set the course of your life as a whole. If your marriage is strong, even if all the circumstances in your life around you are filled with trouble and weakness, it won't matter. You will be able to move out into the world in strength.

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength - each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving.