The Collected Marriage

Posted by Rhonda Langefeld Nov 18, 2006

Let those who always lov'd, now love the more. Pervigilium Veneris

This was the cream of marriage, this nightly turning out of the day's pocketful of memories, this deft, habitual sharing of two pairs of eyes, two pairs of ears. (from Mrs. Miniver, as quoted by Jan Karon in Light from Heaven)

Marriage should be a duet--when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray

The novelist never told us that in life, as in other matters, the young are just beginners and that the art of loving matures with age and experience. Isaac Bashevis Singer

The fact of the matter is that holy matrimony...was never intended as a comfort station for lazy people. Mike Mason

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up. Joseph Barth

Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults. Peter De Vries

People don't judge a man by his wife as much as by the way he treats his wife. Sydney J. Harris

People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense. Ken Kesey

How fresh our love was in the beginning; The summer how it ripened in the ear; And autumn, what our golden harvests were. John Donne