When I think of a merry happy free young girl - and look at the ailing aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.
Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
Woman or more precisely put perhaps marriage is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.
Adultery - which is the only grounds for divorce in New York - is not grounds for divorce in California. As a matter of fact adultery in Southern California is grounds for marriage.
I'm also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage - which no previous society has ever believed.
There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.
As to marriage or celibacy let a man take which course he will he will be sure to repent.
Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.
Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.
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.
In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued.
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced 'mirage'.
Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.
Marriage a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.
There is hardly any activity any enterprise which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations and yet which fails so regularly as love.
We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong we may begin to use it with love and respect.
All men and women have an equal need for love. When these needs are not fulfilled it is easy to have our feelings hurt for which we blame our partner.
Love has features which pierce all hearts he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings he comes quickly and flies away the same.
There is only one secure foundation: a genuine deep relationship with Jesus Christ which will carry you through any and all turmoil. No matter what storms are raging all around you'll stand firm if you stand on His love.
I will not be just a tourist in the world of images just watching images passing by which I cannot live in make love to possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.
To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.
Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.