#marriage

I didn't know that President Bush would endorse a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. ↗

— Mary Cheney

#banning #bush #constitutional #constitutional amendment #endorse

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

I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income. ↗

— Wilkie Collins

#against #am #flame #hasty #i

The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family. ↗

— Eminem

#details #divorce #family #filing #had

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

Then Frederica went towards him, holding out her hand, and he raised his eyes from Felix’s eager countenance, and smiled at her, causing Mr. Moreton to suffer a shock. It was not at all the sort of smile with which his lordship beguiled his flirts, but something warmer and more intimate. Good God! mentally ejaculated Mr. Moreton. Sits the wind in that quarter? ↗

— Georgette Heyer

#shock #smile #marriage

Marriage is hard work, period. ↗

— Kyle Chandler

#hard work #marriage #period #work

I have been doing marriage counseling for about 15 years and I realized that what makes one person feel loved, doesn't make another person feel loved. ↗

— Gary Chapman

#another #been #counseling #doing #feel

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