Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.

Smiles are the language of love.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.

I’ve married somebody who I knew for 14 years. So, I’m just living with a friend. All through my ups and downs in football, from winning the I-League to losing the ISL final, she has been a source of great support.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Our love, our gratitude, our admiration for our men and women in uniform, our veterans and their families – all of that is bigger than any one party or any one election.

The fame isn’t important to me. It’s a blessing to have. Having so many people that support me, that love me and listen to my music, is beautiful.

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.

My husband is everything to me and without him it’s just not the same.

There was once a caustic comment from someone suggesting I was breeding a new race. Fans from different countries have married, amazing things like that. I’ve been to some of the weddings. I went to one here the other day, a pagan ceremony.

Oh, my mama was awesome. Very strict, overreligious, loved the Lord, loved rules. But she had to be that way because of where we were growing up, the neighborhood I was from.

You can’t trust very many people.

It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.

I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back.

They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

My wife thinks she’s better than me at puzzles. I haven’t given in on that one yet.

I haven’t had that one great love, which is good. I don’t want that to be in the past – I want it to be in the future.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

I give unto my wife my second best bed with the furniture.

The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your life, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there’s nothing really to talk about.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

I am completely fascinated by the differences and comparisons between real life and fairy tales because we’re raised as little girls to think that we’re a princess and that Prince Charming is going to sweep us off our feet.

What’s really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: ‚You’re not making me happy, you’re not doing this, you’re not doing that.‘

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.

Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.

I feel like I’m the kind of guy that would have kids before getting married. The first thing would be kids.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

You gotta understand: I believe a woman should praise the man, the king. If you holding it down for your woman, I feel like the woman should praise. And the man should praise the queen.

My wife and I are very affectionate.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: ‚This is my country.‘

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

My mother was a full-time mother. She didn’t have much of her own career, her own life, her own experiences… everything was for her children. I will never be as good a mother as she was. She was just grace incarnate. She was the most generous, loving – she’s better than me.

It’s true that I’ve never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.

If someone lies, well, you had a choice to trust that person or not. I think the way my father raised me, well, he trusted everybody. And that worked for him.

Marriage is the most wonderful thing ever.

Heavenly Father loves every one of His children. After all, He is their Father.

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

There is a ‚sanctity‘ involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Dear friends, we may well sing to our Beloved when it is near the time of our departure. It draws near, and as it approaches, we must not dread it, but rather thank God for it.

We conceal it from ourselves in vain – we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

I didn’t have a father figure in the house.

A pessimist? That’s a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.

I am a bit of a solitude person – a solitary personality. I like being on my own. I don’t have any major friendships or relationships with people.

I think there are things that are based in your own dealings with someone that is a personal dealing, not a public dealing. Because you have personal experiences.