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The appropriate age for marriage is around eighteen for girls and thirty-seven for men.
Aristotle384–322 BCPolitics, Book VII, 1335a.27
- Marriage
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
GBGeorge Washington Burnap1802–1859Often credited to Joseph Addison
- Happiness
- Hope
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Kahlil Gibran1883–1931The Prophet (1923)In context
To love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person.
Erich Fromm1900–1980
In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.
HNHans Nouwens
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
Augustine of Hippo354–430
I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes⁠—and the stars through his soul.
Victor Hugo1802–1885
Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Poor Richard’s Almanack
- Marriage
Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soulmate is the one you are actually married to.
J. R. R. Tolkien1892–1973Letter to his son Michael (March 1941)
- Marriage
If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.
CCCharles Caleb Colton1777–1832Lacon (1820), Volume 2, Vol. II; LXXXIX
- Women
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo1802–1885
That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will love in the same way after us.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832
A man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), Act IIn context
- Marriage
Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.
Goncourt brothersEdmond de Goncourt (1822-96) and Jules de Goncourt (1830-70), French writers. The Goncourt Journals (1888-96; repr. in Pages from the Goncourt Journal, ed. by Robert Baldick, 1962), entry for 15 Nov. 1859
A husband is what’s left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
Socrates470–399 BC
- Marriage
- Men