#marriage

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

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Marriage should be viewed as an institution ordained by God and should be out of the control of the state. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#god #institution #marriage #ordained #out

I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman. ↗

— George W. Bush

#between #i #i believe #man #marriage

The lot of the bride to be wed before bed desired until rotten. The lot of the author to be read before bed admired then forgotten. ↗

— Roman Payne

#authors #brides #desire #funny #humor

To me marriage is for five or ten years. ↗

— Cher

#marriage #me #ten #years

I often wish I'd got on better with your father,' he said. But he never liked anyone who--our friends,' said Clarissa; and could have bitten her tongue for thus reminding Peter that he had wanted to marry her. Of course I did, thought Peter; it almost broke my heart too, he thought; and was overcome with his own grief, which rose like a moon looked at from a terrace, ghastly beautiful with light from the sunken day. I was more unhappy than I've ever been since, he thought. And as if in truth he were sitting there on the terrace he edged a little towards Clarissa; put his hand out; raised it; let it fall. There above them it hung, that moon. She too seemed to be sitting with him on the terrace, in the moonlight. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#imagery #love #marriage #melancholy #moon

The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time. ↗

— Julia Child

#finding #happy #happy marriage #know #love

You'll never experience the joy and tenderness of a lifelong love unless you fight for it. ↗

— Chris Fabry

#life-lessons #marital-advice #marriage-advice #experience

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#constitutes #marriage

Well I think in a marriage you have to be honest and ask yourself, you know, what is my role? What is my responsibility? ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#honest #i #i think #know #marriage