- Two such as you with such a master speed
- Cannot be parted nor be swept away
- From one another once you are agreed
- That life is only life forevermore
- Together wing to wing and oar to oar.
ROBERT FROST, The Master Speed
Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.
WILLIAM WYCHERLEY, The Country Wife
- Love and marriage, love and marriage
- Go together like a horse and carriage
- Dad was told by mother
- You can't have one without the other.
SAMMY CAHN, "Love and Marriage"
A man in love is incomplete until he has married--then he's finished.
ZSA ZSA GABOR, Newsweek, Mar. 28, 1960
- Let me not to the marriage of true minds
- Admit impediments. Love is not love
- Which alters when it alteration finds,
- Or bends with the remover to remove.
- Oh, no, it is an ever-fixèd mark
- That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
- It is the star to every wandering bark
- Whose worth's unknown, although its height be taken.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, sonnet cxvi
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
ELLEN KEY, "The Morality of Woman"
We must rejoice when love is great, and pardon its excess, for love is the staff of life, and life without love is life in vain.
ARTHUR LYNCH, Moods of Life
God has set his intentions in the flowers, in the dawn, in the spring--it is his will that we should love.
VICTOR HUGO, Toilers of the Sea
Love, by reason of its passion, destroys the in-between which relates us to and separates us from others. As long as its spell lasts, the only in-between which can insert itself between two lovers is the child, love's own product. The child, this in-between, to which the lovers now are related and which they hold in common, is representative of the world in that it also separates them; it is an indication that they will insert a new world into the existing world. Through the child, it is as though the lovers return to the world from which their love had expelled them. But this new worldliness, the possible result and the only possibly happy ending of a love affair, is, in a sense, the end of love, which must either overcome the partners anew or be transformed into another mode of belonging together.
HANNAH ARENDT, The Human Condition
- Ah! let us love, my Love, for Time is heartless,
- Be happy while you may!
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE, "The Lake"
- Love it is the precious loom,
- Whose shuttle weaves each tangled thread,
- And works flowers of exquisite bloom,
- Shedding their perfume where we tread.
JAMES MCINTYRE, "Power of Love"
He who loveth, knoweth the inner sun; he see'th Life's blaze.
ELISE PUMPELLY CABOT, "Arizona"
True love survives all shocks: an affection originally produced by admiration for unusual beauty may not only survive the loss of that beauty, but may become more intense if the beauty has changed into ugliness through causes that bind the lovers together in tender associations.
ARTHUR LYNCH, Moods of Life
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