~ My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good wife, you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. ~

~ Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle. ~

~ Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner. ~

~ Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery. ~

~ Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. That is what makes a marriage last --more than passion or even sex! ~

~ A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love. ~

~ The goal in marriage is not to think alike, but to think together. ~

~ Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom when we love the ones we marry. ~

~ A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of a friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and indeed, all the sweets of life. ~

~ Love: a temporary insanity, curable by marriage. ~

~ The friendship between a man and a woman which does not lead to marriage or desire for marriage may be a life long experience of the greatest value to themselves and to all their circle of acquaintance and of activity; but for this type of friendship both a rare man and a rare woman are needed. Perhaps it should be added that either the man or the woman thus deeply bound in lifelong friendship who seeks marriage must find a still rarer man or woman to wed, to make such a three cornered comradeship a permanent success. ~

~ If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don't blame the women's movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based. ~

~ Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway. ~

~ Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed. ~

~ A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it. ~