Marriage — Page 2

“Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone.”

“I take thee to my wedded wife, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death do us part.”

“A threefold cord is not quickly broken.”

“Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.”

“Nothing in the world is single; all things by a law divine in one spirit meet and mingle.”

“Love, all alike, no season knows nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.”

“Treat your wife always with respect; it will procure respect to you, not from her only, but from all that observe you.”

“Grow old along with me! / The best is yet to be, / The last of life, for which the first was made:”

“Reader, I married him.”

“Yes I said yes I will Yes.”

“Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother, and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.”

“In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.”

“Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.”

“Marry in haste and repent at leisure.”

“Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor: for if either of them falls down, one can help the other up.”

“He who finds a wife finds what is good and receives favor from the LORD.”

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

“Let there be spaces in your togetherness, and let the winds of the heavens dance between you.”

“You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore.”

“Marriage is so unlike everything else. There is something even awful in the nearness it brings.”