marriage

Marriage isn't a word, it's a sentence.

Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license.

Only a fool predicts the fate of a marriage, you can do better with the weather.

In the 1600's, a language of flowers developed in Constantinople and in the poetry of Persia. Charles II introduced the Persian poetry to Europe, and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu brought the flower language from Turkey to England in 1716. It spread to France and became a handbook of 800 floral messages known as the Book Le Language des Fleurs. Lovers exchanged messages as they gave each other selected flowers or bouquets. A full red rose meant beauty. Red and white mean unity. Crocus said "abuse not", while a white rosebud warns that one is too young for love. Yellow roses were for jealousy, yellow iris for passion, filbert for reconciliation and ivy for marriage.

Adam and Eve had an ideal marriage. He didn't have to hear all about the men she could've married, and she didn't have to hear all about the dishes his mother cooked. .

Think to Thank. In these three words are the finest capsule course for a happy marriage, formula for enduring friendship, and a pattern for personal happiness.

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years.

I'm not cynical about marriage or romance. I enjoyed being married. And although being single was fun for a while, there was always the risk of dating someone who'd owned a lunch box with my picture on it.

Marriage and hanging go by destiny; matches are made in heaven.