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"My marriage was much the most fortunate and joyous event which happened to me in the whole of my life." Winston Churchill "The wedding vow is a short prologue to a long drama." Hebrew proverb "A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day." André Maurois "A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude. Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible to see the other whole and against a wide sky." Rainer Maria Rilke "The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness." John Seldon "Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid." Harlan Miller "Estimate her by the qualities she has, and not by the qualities she may not have. This is marriage." Charles Dickens "Pains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years." Simone Signoret "Marriage is not a finished affair. No matter to what age you live, love must be continuously consolidated. Being considerate, thoughtful, and respectful without ulterior motives is the key to a good marriage." Pamphlet from the Chinese Family Planning Center "If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry." Anton Chekhov "A man too good for the world is no good for his wife." Yiddish proverb "A marriage is like a long trip in a tiny rowboat: if one passenger starts to rock the boat, the other has to steady it; other wise, they will go to the bottom together." David R. Reuben "If there is one thing a couple should not do, it is to work at the relationship as though it were some kind of task." William Masters and Virginia Johnson "Marriage is a union founded on free and mutual consent. It cannot exist without friendship. It cannot exist without personal fidelity." Charles Brockden Brown "We should marry to please ourselves, not other people." Isaac Bickerstaffe "To give delight, marriage must join two minds." Lord Brooke "If you would marry suitable, marry your equal." Ovid "It is the man and woman united that makes the complete human being. Separate she lacks his force of body and strength of reason; he her softness, sensibility and acute discernment. Together they are most likely to succeed in the world." Benjamin Franklin "Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up." Joseph Barth "My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me. Winston Churchill "Your success and happiness lie in you." Helen Keller "Charlie Shedd's three most important words in any marriage: listen, listen, listen." "Marriage is not so much finding the right person as it is being the right person." "Marriage is the greatest educational institution on earth." Channing Pollock "A second Marriage: To the triumph of hope over experience." Samuel Johnson "The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life." Oscar Wilde "Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity." George Bernard Shaw "If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable." George Ade "The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters." Harold Nicolson "When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part." George Bernard Shaw "One of the best things about marriage is that it gets young people to bed at a decent hour." Merle McNeil Musselman "The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults." Peter De Vries "Propitious Days for Weddings: Monday for wealth, Tuesday for health, Wednesday the best day of all; Thursday for crosses, Friday for losses, Saturday no luck at all." Anonymous "To keep your marriage brimming With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it, Whenever you're right, shut up." Ogden Nash "A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it." Anne Morrow Lindbergh |
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