The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It’s a choice you make – not just on your wedding day, but over and over again — and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They’ve experienced pain and bought jewelry.
-Rita Rudner.

Only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, the the other, to let her have it.
-Lyndon B. Johnson.

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
-W. H. Auden.