Married Couples Quotes

• When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

  Nora Ephron

  Love, Life, Relationship

  Nora Ephron (2011). “When Harry Met Sally. . .”, p.97, Knopf

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• Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

  Laozi

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Love, Anniversary, Marriage

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.24, BookBaby

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  A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Love, Relationship, Anniversary

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.32, BookBaby

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• All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.

  Ann Landers

  Love, Inspirational, Relationship

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• All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love.

  Ann Landers

  Marriage, Art, Couple

  Ann Landers (1982). “Ann Landers says: truth is stranger ...”, Prentice Hall

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• That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle that the Vatican has overlooked.

  Bill Cosby

  Marriage, Valentines Day, Cute Relationship

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  This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

  Earl Wilson

  Love, Couple, Debt Free

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• Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.

  Gloria Steinem

  Relationship, Marriage, Married

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• Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

  Emily Bronte

  Love, Romantic, Anniversary

  Wuthering Heights ch. 9 (1847)

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• When you see a married couple walking down the street, the one that's a few steps ahead is the one that's mad.

  Helen Rowland

  Funny, Couple, Mad

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• A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time.

  Jean Rostand

  Anniversary, Marriage, Couple

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• My mother once told me that if a married couple puts a penny in a pot for every time they make love in the first year, and takes a penny out every time after that, they'll never get all the pennies out of the pot.

  Armistead Maupin

  Marriage, Mother, Couple

  Armistead Maupin (1989). “Tales of the city ; More tales of the city ; Further tales of the city: an omnibus”, Vintage

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• There's one fool at least in every married couple.

  Henry Fielding

  Couple, Fool, Married

  'Amelia' (1751) bk. 9, ch. 4

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• Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result of being that they get on each other's nerves and regularly erupt into vicious emotional shouting matches over such issues as toaster settings.

  Dave Barry

  Love, Couple, Emotional

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.208, Crown Archetype

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• I didn't marry you because you were perfect. I didn't even marry you because I loved you. I married you because you gave me a promise. That promise made up for your faults. And the promise I gave you made up for mine. Two imperfect people got married and it was the promise that made the marriage. And when our children were growing up, it wasn't a house that protected them; and it wasn't our love that protected them--it was that promise.

  Thornton Wilder

  Marriage, Children, Growing Up

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• I think that enduring, committed love between a married couple, along with raising children, is the most noble act anyone can aspire to. It is not written about very much.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Children, Couple, Thinking

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• On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable.

  Emma Goldman

  Inspirational, Funny, Marriage

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.172, Library of Alexandria

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• God's image is the married couple, a man and women, together. Not just the man. Not just the woman. No, both of them. That's God's image.

  Pope Francis

  Couple, Men, Together

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• Let us pray to the Lord and ask him to protect the family in the crisis with which the devil wants to destroy it. Families are the domestic church where Jesus grows in the love of a married couple, in the lives of their children.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Children, Couple

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• Even the God of Calvin never judged anyone as harshly as married couples judge each other.

  Wilfrid Sheed

  Marriage, Couple, Judging

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• For a married couple to expect perfection for each other is unrealistic.

  Billy Graham

  Couple, Perfection, Married

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• All my adult life I've felt drawn to ask long-married couples how they were able to stay together. All of them said the same thing: "We worked hard at it.

  Randy Pausch

  Couple, Long, Together

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• Every married couple has disputes from time to time, and in every good marriage, an attempt is made to overcome the dispute.

  Horst Seehofer

  Couple, Overcoming, Married

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Among fifty percent of your married couples, the husband worries very little about what his wife is doing, provided she is doing all he wishes.

  Honore de Balzac

  Couple, Husband, Wife

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