Long Marriage Quotes

• 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.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Relationship, Anniversary

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• 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.

  Amy Bloom

  Marriage, Love You, Long

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• 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.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Marriage, Dance

  Khalil Gibran “Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran”, Library of Alexandria

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

  Ossie Davis

  Hard Work, Long, Secret

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• 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

  Marriage, Thinking, Awards

  Jenny McCarthy (2007). “Life Laughs: The Naked Truth about Motherhood, Marriage, and Moving On”, p.89, Penguin

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• It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Motivational, Friendship

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

  Andre Maurois

  Love, Happiness, Anniversary

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

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Jun 28, 2013

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• 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.

  Cokie Roberts

  Marriage, Hate, Long

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• And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

  Khalil Gibran

  Relationship, Marriage, Dance

  Khalil Gibran “Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran”, Library of Alexandria

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

  Robert Breault

  Marriage, Long, Waiting

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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.

  Jean Kerr

  Love, Marriage, Wedding

  Jean Kerr (1962). “The Snake Has all the Lines”

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• The secret of a long marriage is shaving your legs every day . . . because it shows you still care.

  Gloria Estefan

  Long, Secret, Shaving

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• Let there be spaces in your togetherness

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Inspirational, Relationship

  The Prophet "On Marriage" (1923)

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• 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

  Marriage, Spiritual, Disappointment

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.6, Anchor

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

  Iris Murdoch

  Long, Structure, Ideals

  Iris Murdoch (2001). “The Sea, The Sea”, p.161, Penguin

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• 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 Heilbrun

  Marriage, Betrayal, Long

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

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

  Khalil Gibran

  Marriage, Wedding, Endless Sea

  Khalil Gibran “Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran”, Library of Alexandria

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• The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.

  Dolly Parton

  Long, Secret, Gone

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• 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)

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Long, Doe, Stories

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• 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.

  Augusten Burroughs

  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

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

  Christopher Lee

  Inspirational, Long, Secret

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• 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.

  Shonda Rhimes

  Long, People, Television

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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.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Anniversary, Mother, Years

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• 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).

  Lynn Barber

  Likes And Dislikes, Long, Opinion

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