“The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle”
Heinrich Heine
“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person”
Mignon McLaughlin
“Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up”
Joseph Barth
“For years [my wedding ring] has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.”
Contributed by: Andy James
Erma Bombeck
“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.”
Mark Twain
“Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.”
Zig Ziglar
“Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe