“To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.”
— Chinese Philosopher Lao Tzu
“You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.”
— Sam Keen
“My husband and I have never considered divorce… murder sometimes, but never divorce.”
— Joyce Brothers
“There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day knowing someone on the other side of that door is waiting for the sound of his footsteps.”
— Ronald Reagan
“Who, being loved, is poor?”
— Oscar Wilde
“Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years.”
— Simone Signoret
“My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good wife, you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.”
— Socrates
“After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve…it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.”
— Mark Twain, from his book: “The Diaries of Adam and Eve”
“I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.”
— Marilyn Monroe
“Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that’s a real treat.”
— Joanne Woodward
“Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.”
— Elizabeth Browning
“After a while, you just want to be with the one that makes you laugh.”
— Mr. Big, from the TV show: “Sex and the City”
“He is not going to be perfect, but if he is kind and thoughtful, if he knows how to work and earn a living, if he is honest and full of faith, the chances are you will not go wrong, that you will be immensely happy.”
— Gordan Hinckley, an American religious leader
“Here’s something else to think about: calling when you say you’re going to is the very first brick in the house you are building of love and trust. If he can’t lay this one stupid brick down, you ain’t never gonna have a house baby, and it’s cold outside.”
— Greg Behrendt, from the book: “He’s Just Not That Into You”
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“What is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul.”
— Victor Hugo
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“I might hate you more, but I could never love you less.”
— from the movie “War Horse”
“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
— Dr. Seuss
“Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.”
— I Corinthians 13:7
“Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet to see who they really are.”
— Will Ferrell
“I didn’t marry you because you were perfect. I didn’t even marry you because I loved you. I married you because you gave me a promise. That promise made up for your faults. And the promise I gave you made up for mine. Two imperfect people got married and it was the promise that made the marriage. And when our children were growing up, it wasn’t a house that protected them; and it wasn’t our love that protected them – it was that promise.”
— Thornton Wilder
““A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.”
— Robert Quillen
“Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.”
— Joseph Barth
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“This relationship is the vessel wherein is nurtured the life force of both individuals, whereby they create the future of the human race in body and thought.”
— L. Ron Hubbard
“A great marriage is not when the ‘perfect couple’ comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.”
— Dave Meurer
“There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.”
— Homer
“In my house I’m the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.”
— Woody Allen
“You make me happier than I ever thought I could be and if you let me I will spend the rest of my life trying to make you feel the same way.”
— Chandler proposing to Monica on “Friends”
“Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.”
— Henry Ford
Words of Wisdom From Children
When is it okay to kiss someone:
“When they’re rich.” — Pam, age 7
“The law says you have to be eighteen, so I wouldn’t want to mess with that.” — Curt, age 7
“The rule goes like this: If you kiss someone, then you should marry them and have kids with them. It’s the right thing to do.” — Howard, age 8
“There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.”
— Martin Luther
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“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.”
— Mark Twain
“Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.”
— Anonymous
“Love is like a friendship caught on fire.”
— Bruce Lee
“Love seems the swiftest but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.”
— Maya Angelou
“Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.”
— Zig Ziglar
“We always hold hands. If I let go, she shops.”
— Henny Youngman
“There’s a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It’s called marriage.”
— James Holt McGavran
“If I get married, I want to be very married.”
— Audrey Hepburn
“As you get older, you’ve probably noticed that you tend to forget things. You’ll be talking with somebody at a party, and you’ll know that you know this person, but no matter how hard you try, you can’t remember his or her name. This can be very embarrassing, especially if he or she turns out to be your spouse.”
— Dave Barry
“Marriage is a mosaic you build with your spouse. Millions of tiny moments that create your love story.”
— Jennifer Smith
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“Nowadays it’s hip not to be married. I’m not interested in being hip.”
— John Lennon
“A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.”
— Anne Taylor Fleming
“I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all of the ages of this world alone.”
— from The Lord Of The Rings (movie)
“The difference between an ordinary marriage and an extraordinary marriage is in giving just a little extra every day, as often as possible, for as long as we both shall live.”
— Fawn Weaver
“At the root of every successful marriage is a strong partnership.”
— Carson Daily
“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.”
— I Corinthians 13: 4-8 (Bible)
“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
— Zelda Fitzgerald
“More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.”
— Doug Larson
“One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall back in love again.”
— Judith Viorst
“Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.”
— Oscar Wilde
“As for his secret to staying married: ‘My wife tells me that if I ever decide to leave, she is coming with me.'”
— Jon BonJovi
“I got gaps; you got gaps; we fill each other’s gaps.”
— Rocky
“You come to love not by finding the right person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.”
— Sam Keen
“Love is not something you feel. It is something you do.”
— David Wilkerson
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“The goal in marriage is not to think alike, but to think together.”
— Robert C Dodds
“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”
— Plato
“Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
— Ursula K. Le Guin, from the book: The Lathe of Heaven
“When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.”
— Goethe
“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”
— Thoreau
“What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.”
— Leo Tolstoy
“The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.”
— Sir Harold George Nicolson
“A great marriage is not when the ‘perfect couple’ come together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.”
— Dave Meure
“Love at first sight is easy to understand; it’s when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.”
— Sam Levenson
“Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom when we love the ones we marry.”
— Tom Mullen
“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”
— Theodore Hesburgh
“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”
— Mignon McLoughlin
“I first learned the concept of non-violence in my marriage.”
— Gandhi
“Now you will feel no rain, for each of you will be shelter for the other.
“Now you will feel no cold, for each of you will be warmth for the other.
“Now there is no more loneliness, for each of you will be companion for the other.
“Now you are two persons, but there is only one life before you.
“Go now to your dwelling place to begin the days of your life together.
“May your days together be good and long upon the earth.”
— Apache Blessing
“No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.”
— Unknown
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