(652 quotes found)
“Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up”
Joseph Barth
“To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.”
Lao Tzu
“The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to.”
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“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
“Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.”
Contributed by: Andy James
Sydney Smith
“Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.”
Mae West
“We are a work in progress with a lifetime contract.”
Phyllis Koss
“Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first”
Billy Sunday
“The first duty of love is to listen.”
Paul Tillich
“That we arrived at fifty years together is due as much to luck as to love, and a talent for knowing, when we stumble, where to fall, and how to get up again.”
Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis