James Holt McGavran

It has to be a true partnership, and you have to really really like and respect the person you’re married to because it is a hard road.

Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?

Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: The one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.

Call no man unhappy until he is married.

This is my first marriage. Beforehand, I was living in sin.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

It was a very meaningful ceremony and marriage means a lot to me.

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you.

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.

If you were going to list the 100 most popular things that I have done as president. Being married to Michelle Obama is number one.

Husbands and wives, first be faithful to each other. Second, keep the romance going all of your life by courting each other every day.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination.