“Maybe the bride-bed brings despair, For each an imagined image brings And finds a real image there...” RealRealityMarriageBedDespairRealismBridesDisillusionment Book:Later Poems Source: Later Poems
“Between married persons, the cement of friendship is by the laws supposed so strong as to abolish all division of possessions: andhas often, in reality, the force ascribed to it.” PersonsRealityLawStrongForceFriendshipMarriageFriendsMarriedPropertyPossessionDivisionAbolishCement Book:Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects Source: Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects
“The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.” PeopleLifeYearsTwoRealityFunnyTogetherSpiritMarriageSeriousConceptsWittySheepDisputesSeriousnessAnniversaryLiving Together Author:A. P. Herbert
“We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.” PeopleWayWantKindDoeHelpingHandsRealityFormSufferingMarriageHomosexualLiving OnGreat RespectHomosexual Marriage Author:Pope Benedict XVI
“Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality” LoveDoeDreamRealityMarriageReturnWake UpBitter Author:Mark Twain
“Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing” LoveLifeRealRealityLove IsMarriageIdealsPhilosophicalReal ThingsAntithesisPositive MarriageShort LoveHappy Love Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“That's how it will be, except that in reality, both today and later, one will stand there with a palpable body and a real head, a real forehead, that is, for smiting on with one's hand.” RealBodyHandsRealityTodayMarriageForeheads Book:The Metamorphosis: And Other Stories Source: The Metamorphosis: And Other Stories
“My wife has been my closest friend, my closest advisor. And ... she's not somebody who looks to the limelight, or even is wild about me being in politics. And that's a good reality check on me. When I go home, she wants me to be a good father and a good husband. And everything else is secondary to that.” WantLooksHas BeensHomeRealityFatherFamilyMarriageWifeHusbandMy WifeChecksWant MeClosestAdvisorsLimelightGood FatherClosest FriendsGood HusbandHe Wants Me Author:Barack Obama
“We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise.” DreamRealityMarriageChildhoodCompromiseSilkChildhood Dreams Author:Raquel Welch
“It may be just one facet of your personality, or it may not even be a facet but only a pretension. You can show this false face with no problem when sometimes you meet on a sea beach, sometimes in a garden, sometimes under the moon and the stars, but when you really start living together then the reality starts surfacing. The real person is a hell and all that sweet talk that had happened under the stars becomes just lies.” MayPersonsRealSometimesShowsProblemRealityTogetherFacesLyingStarsMarriageHellHappenedSeaSweetPersonalityMoonGardenBeachJust OneNo ProblemPretensionFacetsReal PersonLiving TogetherSweet Talk Author:Rajneesh