The ritual of marriage is not simply a social event; it is a crossing
of threads in the fabric of fate. Many strands bring the couple and
their families together and spin their lives into a fabric that is
woven on their children.
-- Portuguese-Jewish Wedding Ceremony
Related:
I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the
greatest complexity can seldom accept even the simplest and most
obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity
of conlusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleages,
which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven,
thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives....