Forty quotations about marriage on the occasion of our 40th wedding anniversary.
A great marriage is not when the “perfect couple” come together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.
[Dave Meurer]A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
[Andre Marois]A marriage anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
[Mignon McLaughlin]A wedding band is the smallest handcuff ever made, I’m glad I chose my cellmate wisely.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
[Lao Tzu]Being married means mostly shouting “What?” from other room.
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.
[Simone Signoret]For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
[Judy Garland]Forever is a long time, but I wouldn’t mind spending it by your side.
I got gaps; you got gaps; we fill each other’s gaps.
I love you and I don’t want to lose you. Because my life has been better since the day I found you.
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
[AA Milne]In a sea of people, my eyes will always search for you.
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
[Friedrich Nietzsche]It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
[Rita Rudner]Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.
[Zane Grey]Love is not about how many days, months, or years you have been together. Love is about how much you love each other every single day.
Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
[Robert Heinlein]Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.
[William O Douglas]Marriage is a partnership in which each inspire the other, and brings fruition to both of you.
[Millicent Carey McIntosh]Marriage, n: The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
[Ambrose Bierce]Married couples who love each other tell each other a thousand things without talking.
[Chinese Proverb]Meeting you was fate, becoming your friend was a choice, but falling in love with you I had no control over.
Our anniversary is just a momentary celebration, but our marriage is a timeless one.
People are weird. When we find someone with weirdness that is compatible with ours, we team up and call it love.
[Dr Seuss]People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.
[Paul Newman]Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate.
[Barnette R Brickner]Thank you for loving me through my bursts of brilliance as well as my moments of madness, together we can do anything.
The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
[AP Herbert]The couples that are “meant to be” are the ones who go through everything that is meant to tear them apart and come out even stronger than they were before.
The 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.
[Julia Child]The secret to having a good marriage is to understand that marriage must be total, it must be permanent and it must be equal.
[Frank Pittman]There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.
[Martin Luther]There is nothing more admirable than two people who see eye-to-eye keeping house as man and wife, confounding their enemies, and delighting their friends.
[Homer]We are a work in progress with a lifetime contract.
[Phyllis Koss]What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.
[Leo Tolstoy]You are my best friend, my human diary, and my other half. You mean the world to me and I love you.
You don’t marry someone you can live with – you marry the person who you cannot live without.
You know you are in love when the two of you can go grocery shopping together.
[Woody Harrelson]
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Last updated: 8 September 2019, Keith Marshall