You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage. – Robert Louis Stevenson

The music at a marriage procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers entering on a battle. – Heinrich Heine, “Thoughts and Fancies,” translated from German by John Snodgrass

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them. – C. S. Lewis

Marriage and the creation of families has been an integral part of our society since its creation it should not be defined without the kind of involvement by the people which a constitutional process would require. – Robert Foster Bennett