You should never kiss a girl unless you have enough bucks to buy her a big ring and her own VCR, ‘cause she’ll want to have videos of the wedding.

Jim, age 10

The fulfillment of marriage is that joy in which each lover’s true being is flowering because its growth is being welcomed and unconsciously encouraged by the other in the infinite series of daily decisions which is their life together.

Neville Ward

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. Successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Jerry McCant

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

Martin Luther

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Harlan Miller

Married life teaches one invaluable lesson: to think of the things far enough ahead not to say them.

Jefferson Machamer

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

A perfect marriage is one in which “I’m sorry” is said just often enough.

Mignon McLaughlin

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.

Ruth Bell Graham

The Christian is supposed to love his neighbor, and since his wife is his nearest neighbor, she should be his deepest love.

Martin Luther

Even if marriages are made in heaven, they all have to be maintained on earth…

One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you. It keeps you together until you fall in again.

Judith Viorst

You were united to your wife by the Lord. In God’s wise plan, when you married, the two of you became one person in his sight.

Malachi 2:15

Marriage must constantly fight against a monster which devours everything: routine.

Honore de Balzac

Keep you eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Peter De Vries

Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom when we love the ones we marry.

Tom Mullen

Everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

Leo Tolstoy

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