Positive Marriage Quotes

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

  Roy Croft

  Love, Friendship, Positive

  "Fictional character: Liberace". "Behind the Candelabra", www.imdb.com. 2013.

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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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• To keep the fire burning brightly there's one easy rule: Keep the two logs together, near enough to keep each other warm and far enough apart - about a finger's breadth - for breathing room. Good fire, good marriage, same rule.

  Marnie Reed Crowell

  Love, Marriage, Fire

  Marnie Reed Crowell (1973). “Greener pastures”

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• You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

  Dr. Seuss

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.

  Nhat Hanh

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• There are a hundred paths through the world that are easier than loving. But who wants easier?

  Mary Oliver

  Love, Marriage, World

  Mary Oliver (2005). “New and Selected Poems, Volume Two”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Anniversary, Marriage

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• The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Marriage, Wedding, Morning

  Love in the Time of Cholera (1985)

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• A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

  Andre Maurois

  Love, Success, Anniversary

  "The Art of Living". Book by Andre Maurois, 1939.

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• You know you're in love when you stop comparing.

  Mason Cooley

  Love, Romantic, Wedding

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• Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Love, Funny, Marriage

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.155, University of Georgia Press

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• If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Love, Marriage, Ifs

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• In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

  Enid Bagnold

  Inspirational, Marriage, Wedding

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  There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

  Homer

  Love, Marriage, Wedding

  Homer (1983). “The Odyssey”, Outlet

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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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• A heart isn't something you get. It's something that's born.

  Yukiru Sugisaki

  Marriage, Heart, Nouns

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• Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.

  Franz Schubert

  Love, Marriage, Wedding

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• Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Friendship, Relationship, Marriage

  Oscar Wilde (1999). “De Profundis: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Writings”, p.13, Wordsworth Editions

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• Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Love, Marriage, Verbs

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• Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Life, Marriage

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• The secret to having a good marriage is to understand that marriage must
  be total, it must be permanent, and it must be equal.

  Frank Pittman

  Anniversary, Marriage, Wedding

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• Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Relationship

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (2000). “Life's Instructions for Wisdom, Success, and Happiness”, p.83, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Love, Anniversary, Valentines Day

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• Holding her hand in public is just another way of saying you're proud to have her.

  Drake

  Hands, Proud, Way

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

  Peter De Vries

  Relationship, Anniversary, Marriage

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