From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven, and when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, the streams of light flow together and a single brighter light goes forth from that united being.
-Baal Shem Tov
Quotations
Marriage
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habit and then complain that he's not the man she married?
-Barbra Streisand
My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
-Rodney Dangerfield
If you both care for each other more than you care for yourself, your marriage will endure all.
-Lisa Tawn Bergren
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession.
-Thomas Hardy
"Far from the Madding Crowd"
Catholics don't believe in divorce. We do believe in murder. There's always Confession, after all.
-Diana Gabaldon
"An Echo in the Bone"
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
-George Bernard Shaw
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-Ambrose Bierce
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
-Erma Bombeck
