Marriage, like death, is a debt we owe to nature.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.
First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too.
When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug.
As the wedded pair have given each other power over their bodies, it would be a grave sin for one to refuse either altogether or for a considerable time the fulfilment of the marriage debt.
Married life has become to many a necessary burden, but a burden that is shed very easily.
Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.
Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.