Marriage

When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.

Friendship is two-sided. It isn't a friend just because someone's doing something nice for you. That's a nice person. There's friendship when you do for each other. It's like marriage - it's two-sided.

A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

I'm so wrapped up in my work that it's often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this, my relationship with Holly has suffered by this.

Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that.

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.

I might be celibate, but I appreciate the wonder of the sacrament of marriage.

Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.

Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.

Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.

Marriage: A word which should be pronounced 'mirage'.

It is a full time job being honest one moment at a time, remembering to love, to honor, to respect. It is a practice, a discipline, worthy of every moment.

Marriage is a great institution.

A good husband makes a good wife.

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.

One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.