“We do not marry for ourselves, whatever we say; we marry just as much or more for our posterity, for our family. The practice and benefit of marriage concerns our race very far beyond us.” RaceMarriagePracticeBenefitsConcernOur FamilyPosterity Book:The Complete Works: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters Source: The Complete Works: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters
“True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the well-being of one's companion.” LoveWellsMatterRomanceLove IsMarriageConcernWell BeingCompanionAnxiousTrue Love Is Author:Gordon B. Hinckley
“Of all the actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all the actions of our lives, 'tis the most meddled with by other people.” PeopleMenDoeActionMarriageOur LivesConcernWedding Author:John Selden
“I'm the only man in the world with a marriage licence made out to whom it may concern.” MenWorldMayMadeFunnyMarriageConcernFunny Love Author:Mickey Rooney
“The concern that some women show at the absence of their husbands, does not arise from their not seeing them and being with them, but from their apprehension that their husbands are enjoying pleasures in which they do not participate, and which, from their being at a distance, they have not the power of interrupting.” DoeShowsEnjoyPleasureMarriageWifeSeeingHusbandConcernDistanceAbsenceAriseApprehensionInterrupting Author:Michel de Montaigne
“If you will make your first concern the comfort, the well-being, and the happiness of your companion, sublimating any personal concern to that loftier goal, you will be happy, and your marriage will go on through eternity” IfsFirstsWellsGoalMarriageGoes OnComfortConcernEternityWell BeingCompanion Author:Gordon B. Hinckley