#age

Luck which so often defies anticipation in matrimonial affairs, giving attraction to what is moderate rather than to what is superior. ↗

— Jane Austen

#luck #marriage #marriage

Some marriages are made in heaven, but they all have to be maintained on earth. Mrs Miracle ↗

— Debbie Macomber

#marriage

The cafe was called Tattoos. The fella who owned it didn't have any tattoos... but we never saw his wife. ↗

— Karl Pilkington

#tattoos #marriage

Better die an old maid, sister, than marry the wrong man. ↗

— Billy Sunday

#old-maid #spinsterhood #marriage

What we do for each other before marriage is no indication of what we will do after marriage. ↗

— Gary Chapman

#love

This is your heart.Keep it locked until the chap turns up who has the key. ↗

— Jean Webster

#marriage #love

When he thought of her, it rather amazed him, that he had let that girl with her violin go. Now, of course, he saw that her self-effacing proposal was quite irrelevant. All she had needed was the certainty of his love, and his reassurance that there was no hurry when a lifetime lay ahead of them. Love and patience- if only he had had them both at once- would surely have seen them both through. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#marriage #love

If you both care for each other more than you care for yourself, your marriage will endure all. ↗

— Lisa Tawn Bergren

#marriage #torrent #love

So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#marriage

A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, in the expectation that the other will do the same. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#marriage #marriage