Long Marriage Quotes

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  • Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

    Love   Marriage   Wedding  
    Jean Kerr (1962). “The Snake Has all the Lines”
  • The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.

    Long   Secret   Gone  
  • You surely know that in the course of a long marriage it is not unusual for a husband or a wife to develop a crush on someone else.

    Crush   Husband   Long  
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  • My mother and stepfather were married 43 years, so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And, you know, it's just a number.

  • Ive learned this is a very long marriage doing a television show. I like the people that I work with to be people I enjoy, so you want to cast people who are as excited and enthusiastic as you are.

  • Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

    FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Jun 28, 2013
  • When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.

    Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.6, Anchor
  • And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

    Khalil Gibran “Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran”, Library of Alexandria
  • Marriage is a pretty amazing thing when you think about it. For two people to live together for so long under the same roof is a big accomplishment. Fifty-year anniversaries are becoming extinct, yet again proving that long marriages deserve awards and praise. Sometimes I see old people in restaurants sitting together eating their meals and I watch them. Sometimes it makes me sad. They don't even talk. Is it because they have nothing else to say, or can they simply read each other's mind by now?

    Jenny McCarthy (2007). “Life Laughs: The Naked Truth about Motherhood, Marriage, and Moving On”, p.89, Penguin
  • It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

  • Long marriages have ended in ruin over tiny and insignificant grievances that were never properly aired and instead grew into a brittle barnacle of hatred.

    Long   Hatred   Ruins  
    Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.19, Macmillan
  • The secret of a long marriage is shaving your legs every day . . . because it shows you still care.

    Long   Secret   Shaving  
  • One thing you learn in a long marriage is how many sneezes to wait before saying, "Bless you.

    Marriage   Long   Waiting  
  • There is no secret to a long marriage - it's hard work...It's serious business, and certainly not for cowards.

    Hard Work   Long   Secret  
  • The secret to a long marriage in the film industry? Marry someone wonderful, as I did. And always have her come along on location.

  • Why do long marriages occasionally endow their inhabitants with a rare kind of equilibrium otherwise almost unknown in human relations? My guess is that the value of the moment has at last overshadowed the long history of resentments, betrayals, and boredom.

    Carolyn G. Heilbrun (2011). “The Last Gift of Time: Life Beyond Sixty”, p.213, Ballantine Books
  • Some 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.

  • But perhaps this is what goes wrong with long marriages--you state your opinions, your likes and dislikes, at the beginning and then forget to mention when they change" (135).

  • Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.

  • A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

  • Love one another, but make not a bond of love.

    Khalil Gibran “Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran”, Library of Alexandria
  • There is such pleasure in long-term marriage that I really would hate to be my age and not have had a long-term marriage. Remember, sustaining a pleasurable, long-term marriage takes effort, deliberateness and an intention to learn about one another. In other words, marriage is for grown-ups.

    Marriage   Hate   Long  
  • A long marriage is very unifying, even if it's not ideal, and those old structures must be respected.

    Long   Structure   Ideals  
    Iris Murdoch (2001). “The Sea, The Sea”, p.161, Penguin
  • But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

    Love   Marriage   Dance  
    Khalil Gibran “Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran”, Library of Alexandria
  • Let there be spaces in your togetherness

    The Prophet "On Marriage" (1923)
  • This is what intimacy does to us over time. That's what a long marriage can do: It causes us to inherit and trade each other's stories. (p.237)

    Long   Doe   Stories  
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