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
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-Ambrose Bierce
There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-Homer
"The Odyssey"
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he's finished.
-Zsa Zsa Gabor
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
-George Bernard Shaw
There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years from the small acorn of passion into a great rooted tree.
-Vita Sackville-West
Oh, Lizzy! Do anything rather than marry without affection.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
-George Bernard Shaw
