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Love, and you shall be loved. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love, and you shall be loved.

Marriage is not a reform school. - Ann Landers

Marriage is not a reform school.

My heart is ever at your service. - William Shakespeare

My heart is ever at your service.

Love is no assignment for cowards. - Ovid

Love is no assignment for cowards.

I married beneath me. All women do. - Nancy Astor

I married beneath me. All women do.

Love is often the fruit of marriage. - Moliere

Love is often the fruit of marriage.

You're nothing short of my everything. - Ralph Block

You're nothing short of my everything.

Love either finds equality or makes it. - John Dryden

Love either finds equality or makes it.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally. - Henri Frederic Amiel

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Headship is not rulership; it is leadership. - Myles Munroe

Headship is not rulership; it is leadership.

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake. - Alexander Pope

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey. - Victor Hugo

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me. - Anna Nicole Smith

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Marriage is the agreement to let a family happen. - Betty Jane Wylie

Marriage is the agreement to let a family happen.

Each divorce is the death of a small civilization. - Pat Conroy

Each divorce is the death of a small civilization.

How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved. - Sigmund Freud

How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.

No trial is so large we can't overcome it together. - Neil L. Andersen

No trial is so large we can't overcome it together.

True love begins when nothing is looked for in return. - Antoine De Saint-Exupery

True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.

Husbands are like fires - they go out when unattended. - Zsa Zsa Gabor

Husbands are like fires - they go out when unattended.

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths - Mark Twain

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. - Oscar Wilde

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle. - Charles Baudelaire

A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.

The longest sentence you can form with two words is: I do. - H. L. Mencken

The longest sentence you can form with two words is: I do.

When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place - Helen Gahagan Douglas

When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place

Come out of the circle of time And into the circle of love. - Rumi

Come out of the circle of time And into the circle of love.

Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one. - Duke Ellington

Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one.

Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do. - David Wilkerson

Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.

Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it. - Nicholas Sparks

Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.

Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both. - Samuel Butler

Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.

The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife. - Cyril Connolly

The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.

To him in whom love dwells, the whole world is but one family. - Gautama Buddha

To him in whom love dwells, the whole world is but one family.

Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes. - J. B. Priestley

Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.

Love is not about grand intentions. It is about small attentions. - Robert Breault

Love is not about grand intentions. It is about small attentions.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lov'st what is lovely. - William Penn

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lov'st what is lovely.

Marriage is long enough to have plenty of room for time behind it. - William Faulkner

Marriage is long enough to have plenty of room for time behind it.

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. - Alfred Lord Tennyson

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give. - Oprah Winfrey

The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short. - Andre Maurois

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

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold. - Zelda Fitzgerald

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

Never marry a man who hates his mother because he'll end up hating ... - Jill Bennett

Never marry a man who hates his mother because he'll end up hating you.

Marriage is commonly a meal wherein the soup is better than the ... - Austin O'malley

Marriage is commonly a meal wherein the soup is better than the desert.

Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the ... - Charles Caleb Colton

Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.

Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in ... - Jackie Mason

Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human ... - Benjamin Disraeli

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

I've been married three times - and each time I married the right ... - Margaret Mead

I've been married three times - and each time I married the right person.

Never marry anyone you could not sit next to during a three-day bus ... - Roger Ebert

Never marry anyone you could not sit next to during a three-day bus trip.

I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am ... - Roy Croft

I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you

Young men not ought to marry yet, and old men never ought to marry at ... - Diogenes

Young men not ought to marry yet, and old men never ought to marry at all.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in ... - Louise Hay

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of ... - Abraham Lincoln

Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

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