#marriage

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me ↗

— Winston Churchill

#marriage-proposal #marriage

I would rather not be engaged. When people are engaged, they begin to think of being married soon, and I should like everything to go on for a long while just as it is. ↗

— George Eliot

#marriage #married #marriage

If I have to 'catch' a man to get a husband, I don't want one. ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#relationships #marriage

It may be that same-sex couples will save the institution of marriage. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#gay-marriage #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