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  • Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and halfway closed there after.

    Love   Marriage   Eye  
  • 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.

    Love   Marriage   Wedding  
    Mark Twain (2017). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated Edition): Novels, Short Stories, Memoir, Travel Books, Letters, Biography, Articles & Speeches: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi, Yankee in King Arthur's Court…”, p.8291, e-artnow
  • Marriage, like a submarine, is only safe if you get all the way inside.

    Marriage   Safe   Way  
  • If there is one word that describes the meaning of character, it is the word honor. Without honor, civilization would not long exist. Without honor, there could be no dependable contracts, no lasting marriages, no trust or happiness. What does the word honor mean to you? To me, honor is summarized in this expression by the poet Tennyson, "Man's word [of honor] is God in man."

  • If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.

    Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.24, BookBaby
  • The United States Administration for Children and Families (ACF) spends $46 billion per year operating 65 different social programs. If one goes down the list of these programs… the need for each is either created or exacerbated by the breakup of families and marriages.

  • What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.

  • Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

    "Reflections for Tending the Sacred Garden". Book by Bonita Jean Zimmer (p. 182), April 2003.
  • People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.

    Marriage   Doors   People  
    "Paul Newman: A Life in Pictures". Book edited by Yann-Brice Dherbier and Pierre-Henri Verlhac, October 19, 2006.
  • I have no way of knowing whether or not you married the wrong person. But I do know that if you treat the wrong person like the right person, you could well end up having married the right person after all. It is far more important to BE the right kind of person than it is to marry the right person.

    Zig Ziglar (2004). “Courtship After Marriage: Romance Can Last a Lifetime”, p.11, Thomas Nelson
  • 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.

  • The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.

  • There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

    "Table Talk" by Martin Luther, (p. 292), 1569.
  • I am convinced that if we as a society work diligently in every other area of life and neglect the family, it would be analogous to straightening deck chairs on the Titanic.

    Stephen R. Covey (2014). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families”, p.2, St. Martin's Press
  • What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.

    Love   Marriage   Fashion  
    Nathaniel Hawthorne (1972). “Love letters of Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1839-1863”
  • The happy State of Matrimony is, undoubtedly, the surest and most lasting Foundation of Comfort and Love . . . the Cause of all good Order in the World, and what alone preserves it from the utmost Confusion.

    Love   Marriage   Order  
    Benjamin Franklin, Walter Isaacson (2003). “A Benjamin Franklin Reader”, p.53, Simon and Schuster
  • In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage.

  • And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

    Khalil Gibran “Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran”, Library of Alexandria
  • 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.

    Love   Marriage   Wedding  
    Kiron K. Skinner, Ronald Reagan, Annelise Anderson, Martin Anderson (2004). “Reagan: A Life In Letters”, p.61, Simon and Schuster
  • I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.

    George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.615, 谷月社
  • Marriage, the family unit, was the "original Department of Health, Education and Welfare."

  • Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

    Love   Marriage   Verbs  
  • Marriage is a public good, not just a private relationship. We have a public stake in healthy marriages and two-parent families. Our society suffers with the collapse of the relationship of the couple who brings a child into the world.

  • It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

  • As for his secret to staying married: "My wife tells me that if I ever decide to leave, she is coming with me."

    Marriage   Wife   Secret  
  • Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.

  • A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.

    Ruth Bell Graham, Gigi Tchividjian (2009). “A Quiet Knowing”, p.42, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • Marriage orients men and women toward the future, asking them not just to commit to each other but to plan, to earn, to save, and to devote themselves to advancing their children's prospects.

  • If you want true love and a long-lasting marriage, you need to start by figuring out what makes you happy.

    Long   Needs   Want  
  • A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

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