Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

We are not the same persons this year as last nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom wait until they have been married longer.