Marriage

"Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together, yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow."

"I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury."

"I married my husband who is thirteen years older, so I will always be a trophy wife for him."

"I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me."

"Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the grooms."

"It is not every man's fate to marry the woman who loves him best."

"I wouldn't be the man I am today without the woman who agreed to marry me 20 years ago"

"Success in marriage depends on being able, when you get over being in love, to really love."

"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."

"One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry."

"Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him."

"Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel."