#marriage

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them. ↗

— James Dobson

#couples #eludes #expect #find #i

You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#family #marriage #relationships #family

It's not someone else's responsibility to honor my marriage. It's my responsibility. ↗

— David Duchovny

#honor #marriage #responsibility #someone

Wooing, wedding, and repenting is as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinque-pace: the first suit is hot and hasty like a Scotch jig--and full as fantastical; the wedding, mannerly modest, as a measure, full of state and ancientry; and then comes repentance and with his bad legs falls into the cinque-pace faster and faster, till he sink into his grave. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#humor #life #love #marriage #matrimony

I think that marriage is an amazing institution and should be preserved, and you can have great marriages, and you must because sharing your life with someone is like the greatest thing. And I loved being able to set a good example for that on television. ↗

— Jenna Elfman

#amazing #because #being #example #good

To me, marriage is the ultimate mystery. ↗

— Gillian Flynn

#me #mystery #ultimate

I'm not that big a fan of marriage as an institution and I don't know why women need to have children to be seen as complete human beings. ↗

— Marisa Tomei

#big #children #complete #fan #human

In those days, man, in the '50s, black people in the South... We didn't recognize contracts that much. And we didn't recognize marriages that much, either. ↗

— Ike Turner

#contracts #days #either #man #marriages

Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient. ↗

— Voltaire

#believe #date #divorce #however #i

Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults. ↗

— Peter De Vries

#before #children #enough #marriage #mature