Famous Quotes

Some famous quotes about marriage.

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each
other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
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We learned how to love each other by loving together
good things wholly outside each other.
Donald Hall
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Marriage isn’t supposed to make you happy -
it’s supposed to make you married.
Frank Pittman
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Marriage isn’t supposed to make you happy - and satisfied.
It’s your job to make your marriage happy - and satisfying.
Same goes for sex. It isn’t supposed to make you passionate and “hot”.
It’s up to you to make it passionate and “hot” - and intimate.
Diane Sollee, smartmarriages.com
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The development of a really good marriage is not a natural process.
It is an achievement.
David and Vera Mace
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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
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A good marriage is the union of two good forgivers.
Ruth Bell Graham
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Let there be spaces in your togetherness
Kahlil Gibran
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The challenge is to help couples turn “I Do” into “We Can.”
Scott Stanley, prepinc.com
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If you didn’t want to be improved, you shouldn’t have gotten married.
Nancy (Mrs Scott) Stanley
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It’s true what they say – all the good men are married. But it’s marriage that makes them good.
Gay Talese, Thy Neighbor’s Wife
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Be on the lookout for strain in each other, and with compassion and
understanding, lend a helping hand and a mature heart. Helping each other
manage emotional strain can yield creative alternatives and build a new
foundation for heart-based communication and hope.
Doc Childre
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They haven’t found Mr. Right. Maybe there’s just a Mr. OK or Mr. Pretty Good.
Linda Waite, coauthor, The Case for Marriage
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And, on the case for finding Mr or Ms right, the case for pacing and a 2-year
courtship:
There was a study about children, marshmallows and delayed
gratification. Researchers found that children who can delay
gratification by saving marshmallows until a later time turn out to be
happier and better adjusted later in life. We feel better when we are
in control of our desires and, particularly, our behaviors.

The temptation is to have it NOW. One man wrote to me and said:
I have learned that everything in life is instant gratification. I
just don’t know the instant it will happen. So I just do what is
in front of me to do, be patient, and wait for that instant.
Steve Goodier’s Life Support Blog
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You can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three
things: a rainy day, lost luggage and tangled Christmas tree lights.
Maya Angelou
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In marriage, as in all things, the perfect can be the enemy of the good.
unknown
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Getting married is the boldest and most idealistic thing that
most of us will ever do.
Maggie Gallagher, coauthor, The Case for Marriage
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Both men and women live longer, happier, healthier and wealthier lives
when they are married. Unmarried co-habitation doesn’t cut it. Cohabitation
does not bring the benefits - in physical health, wealth, and emotional wellbeing
- that marriage does. And, married people have both more and better sex
than do their unmarried counterparts.
Linda Waite, The Case for Marriage
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Divorce causes a decrease in wealth that is larger than just splitting a
couple’s assets in half. By the same token, married people see an increase in
wealth that is more than just adding the assets of two single people.
On the other hand, divorce can devastate your wealth. Divorce drops a
person’s wealth by an average of 77%. Contrary to popular belief,
the research shows that the wealth of divorced women wasn’t significantly
worse than that of divorced men, in terms of real money. If you really
want to increase your wealth, get married and stay married.
Jay Zagorsky, Ohio State, Journal of Sociology, Jan 2006
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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner,
it feels limitless, not limited.
Gloria Steinem, 2000, upon marrying for the first time at age 66
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The sweetest love I ever had/I left aside
Because I did not want to be/ any man’s bride . . .
Control your mind my girl/ and give your heart to one
For if you love all men/ you’ll surely be left with none
Eve Cassidy, Tall Trees in Georga on having chosen independence over love
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