#marriage

Oh dear... it really is rather disillusioning. When one's friends marry for money they are wretched, when they marry for love it is worse. What is the proper thing to marry for, I should like to know? ↗

— Nancy Mitford

#marriage #love

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher. ↗

— Socrates

#marriage

Don't you suppose men get surprised after they're married to find that their wives do have sense?" "Well, it's too late den. Dey's already mahied. ↗

— Margaret Mitchell

#marriage

A wife's loyalty is tested when her husband has nothing. A husband's loyalty is tested when he has everything. ↗

— Habeeb Akande

#male-and-female #marriage #relationships #tested #marriage

Emma giggled. "I don't think so." She nudged him playfully. "Just go on over and make them an offer they can't refuse on taking your fiancee upstairs to consummate your engagement." He scowled at her. "You're supposed to consummate a marriage, not an engagement. ↗

— Katie Ashley

#emma-harrison #katie-ashley #the-proposal #marriage

I want someone who puts the whole ball of wax at risk. I want the kind of marriage where we would follow each other out into the stormy fatal sea or I'm not marrying at all. ↗

— Polly Horvath

#marriage

It was as if they'd discovered something that had once been there but had gotten hidden or misunderstood or forgotten over time, and they were charmed by it once more, and by one another. Which seems only right and expectable for married people. They caught a glimpse of the person they fell in love with, and who sustained life. For some, that vision must never dim - as is true of me. But it was odd that our parents should catch their glimpse, and have frustration, anxiety and worry pass away like clouds dispersing after a storm, refind their best selves, but for that glimpse to happen just before landing our family in ruin. ↗

— Richard Ford

#crime #literary #marriage #family

Marriage to the groom does not means that his heart belongs to the bride. ↗

— Dennis E. Adonis

#cheating #heart-broken #infidelity #lost-love #marriage

The secret to a long and loving marriage is to choose, everyday, to be married. ↗

— Jacqueline Patricks

#long-term-relationships #marriage #vows #love

As you gave the ring to one another and have now received it a 2nd time from the hand of the pastor, so love comes from you, but marriage from above, from God. As high as God is above man, so high are the sanctity, the rights, and the promise of love. It is not your love tht sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#love #marriage #love