#marriage

We tell ourselves that intimacy (and marriage) takes two people who are willing to work at it-but, unfortunately, we rarely have the slightest inkling of our "job" assignments in this project. ↗

— David Schnarch

#love

Any mature, spiritually sensitive view of marriage must be built on the foundation of mature love rather than romanticism. But this immediately casts us into a countercultural pursuit. ↗

— Gary L. Thomas

#marriage #romance #love

As a rabbi, I’ve spent long hours counseling people I’ve married, and in each case I like to talk with the couple about not only compatibility and love, but also their relationship with money. If you and your partner are not in the same financial mind-frame, then chances are your marriage won’t work. You can’t be an army of one when you are married. Financial problems are the number one cause of divorce. ↗

— Celso Cukierkorn

#marriage #love

mais je crois qu’elle aurait tout autant de chances d’être heureuse, si elle épousait Mr. Bingley demain que si elle se met à étudier son caractère pendant une année entière ; car le bonheur en ménage est pure affaire de hasard. La félicité de deux époux ne m’apparaît pas devoir être plus grande du fait qu’ils se connaissaient à fond avant leur mariage ; cela n’empêche pas les divergences de naître ensuite et de provoquer les inévitables déceptions. Mieux vaut, à mon avis, ignorer le plus possible les défauts de celui qui partagera votre existence ! ↗

— Jane Austen

#love-story #marriage #love

يَحلم الرّجُل بِ إمّرَأةٍ كــآمِلَة! ،وتَحلم المَرأة بِ رَجُلٍ كــآمِلْ! و لآ يَعْلَمُونَ أَنَّ الله خَلَقَهُم لِ يُكَمِّلا بَعْضَهُمْ البَعْضْ. ↗

— احمد الشقيري

#love #marriage #love

The marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she is a householder. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#wife #marriage

Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it’s a mistake to make a habit of it. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#marriage #w-somerset-maugham #marriage

She had the habit of making up virtuous qualities in a man to support her attraction. ↗

— Alyssa Kress

#quality #virtue #marriage

I'm not an if at first you don't succeed kind of a girl. When it comes to marriage I'm more of a one and done type. ↗

— Castle Season

#marriage

Didn't Frankenstein get married?" "Did he?" said Eggy. "I don't know. I never met him. Harrow man, I expect. ↗

— P.G. Wodehouse

#marriage #public-school #society #marriage