Bride and groom are not just two contracting parties but two loving and beloved companions, joined in establishing a home that will be nothing less than a source of immortality.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We make no greater voluntary choice in this life than the selection of a marriage partner. This decision can bring eternal happiness and joy. To find sublime fulfillment in marriage, both partners need to be fully committed to the marriage.
One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
Marriage is a commitment for life. It is a permanent, lifelong relationship.
The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.
Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.
Marriage is the tomb of love.
A marriage is a solemn affair. The tempest of emotions and the myriad of arrangements are giddying, and when one is faced with these, clothing seems to be the last of one's priorities.
I think the institute of marriage is a noble thing. The idea of a partner for life is incredibly romantic. But now we're living to 100. A hundred years ago people were dying at age 37. Til death do us part was a much different deal.
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
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