#marriage

Neither of us entered marriage thinking it wouldn't be a strain. Life has strains in it, and he's the person I want to strain with. ↗

— Patricia Arquette

#i #life #marriage #neither #person

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. ↗

— Jane Austen

#ever #incomprehensible #man #marriage #offer

I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage. ↗

— Kate Adie

#become #church #england #expected #i

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#any #creation #emotion #everything #fleeting

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring. ↗

— Enid Bagnold

#again #ageless #ancient #beneath #child

Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius. ↗

— Warren Beatty

#genius #like #marriage #monogamy #requires

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#curable #insanity #love #temporary

Books and marriage go ill together. ↗

— Moliere

#go #ill #marriage #together

Choose a companion of your own faith. You are much more likely to be happy. Choose a companion you can always honor. You can always respect, one who will complement you in your own life, one to whom you can give your entire heart, your entire love, your entire allegiance, your entire loyalty. Determine that there will never be anything that will come between you, that will disrupt your marriage. Make it work. Resolve to make it work. There is far too much of divorce wherein hearts are broken and sometimes lives are destroyed. Be fiercely loyal to one another. ↗

— First Presidency - Hinckley

#love #marriage #faith

They learned to live contently with small things, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy not respectable, and to be rich not wealthy. They let the sacred and unconscious bloom amidst the common, rendering it all extraordinary. ↗

— David Paul Kirkpatrick

#marriage #simplicity-in-life #love