We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
Copy Quote View & ShareThere is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.
Copy Quote View & ShareMarriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
Copy Quote View & ShareA wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
Copy Quote View & ShareThe secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.
Copy Quote View & ShareSome people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.
Copy Quote View & ShareExperts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.
Copy Quote View & ShareMarriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.
Copy Quote View & ShareChains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.
Copy Quote View & ShareLove is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
Copy Quote View & ShareYou were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
Copy Quote View & ShareMore marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.
Copy Quote View & ShareMarriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.
Copy Quote View & ShareThe concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
Copy Quote View & ShareWhy does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
Copy Quote View & ShareStrike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.
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