Years Of Marriage Quotes

• Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.

  Simone Signoret

  Love, Anniversary, Marriage

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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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• Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

  Barbra Streisand

  Inspirational, Funny, Success

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• When asked his secret of love, being married fifty-four years to the same
  person, he said, "Ruth and I are happily incompatible."

  Billy Graham

  Marriage, Love Is, Years

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• After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.

  Mel Gibson

  Funny, Inspiring, Anniversary

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• For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.

  Erma Bombeck

  Inspirational, Funny, Marriage

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• Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

  H. L. Mencken

  Anniversary, Marriage, Husband

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• A happy wedlock is a long falling in love.

  Theodore Parker

  Marriage, Falling In Love, Long

  Theodore Parker (1872). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Lessons from the world of matter and the world of man”, p.151

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• Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public building.

  Oscar Wilde

  Marriage, Years, Romance

  A Woman of No Importance act 1 (1893)

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• I am going on eight years of marriage, and when it comes to communication, I believe you should always communicate in a time of peace. As a general rule, never try to communicate in the heat of the moment.

  Tony Gaskins

  Believe, Communication, Years

  Source: kish-magazine.com

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• One of the first things you and your fiance need to develop is a meaningful prayer life even before the wedding. My wife, Shirley, and I did that, and the time we have spent on our knees has been the stabilizing factor throughout nearly forty years of marriage.

  James Dobson

  Meaningful, Prayer, Years

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• The first year of marriage is like wet cement - the impressions made in it are much harder to change once it has set.

  Robert Wolgemuth

  Wedding, Years, Firsts

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• After 45 years of marriage, when I have an argument with my wife, if we don't agree, we do what she wants. But, when we agree, we do what I want!

  Jacques Pepin

  Anniversary, Years, Wife

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• I'm very aware that people find my wife and I's marriage disagreeable. But all I have to do is look at my four kids, and the love I have in my heart for my wife after 18 years of marriage, and the ugliness does fade.

  David Oyelowo

  Heart, Kids, Years

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• She always had a headache, or it was too hot, always, or she pretended to be asleep, or she had her period again, her period, always her period. So much so that Dr. Urbino had dared to say in class, only for the relief of unburdening himself without confession, that after ten years of marriage women had their periods as often as threes times a week.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Years, Class, Hot

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• Even divorce, she thought, cannot erase all the bonds forged by years of marriage. Long after the papers are signed, decrees notarized, the ties still remain. And the most powerful tie of all is written in a child's flesh and blood.

  Tess Gerritsen

  Children, Powerful, Divorce

  Tess Gerritsen (2012). “The Rizzoli & Isles Series 9-Book Bundle: The Surgeon, The Apprentice, The Sinner, Body Double, Vanish, The Mephisto Club, The Keepsake, Ice Cold, The Silent Girl”, p.1060, Ballantine Books

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• I have heard from people that the first year of marriage is the toughest. Brie [Bella] and I have definitely had our share of life difficulties with me having neck surgery and that sort of thing, but things are going really well and it is getting better after year one and that is phenomenal.

  Daniel Bryan

  Years, People, Get Better

  Source: hollywoodlife.com

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• Going through a divorce after twenty-five years of marriage was the most difficult time for me. It was challenging to reorient my life from being centered around family, a family home, and a long-term relationship.

  Tim Matheson

  Divorce, Home, Years

  "Tim Matheson: On the Whole Live Challenge and never wallowing in disappointment". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I wrote this book [ Desperate Marriages] because of my own marriage. My wife and I struggled greatly in the early years of marriage. In spite of the fact that we were Christians before we got married, we prayed about getting married, we believed it was God's will for us to get married, and we still had great struggles.

  Gary Chapman

  Christian, Struggle, Book

  Source: www.crosswalk.com

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• I think I've scratched the surface after twenty years of marriage. Women want chocolate and conversation.

  Mel Gibson

  Thinking, Years, Chocolate

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I had my children after eight years of marriage. It was a dream come true. I still pinch myself.

  Nita Ambani

  Dream, Children, Eight

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• After forty years of marriage we still stood with broken swords in our hands.

  Enid Bagnold

  Marriage, Hands, Years

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• I had a friend who, after 25 years of marriage, found himself trying to date again, and it was completely different. Everything had changed, and he had to reacquaint himself. It was funny even talking to him about it. For someone who has been out of the loop, it’s a different world.

  Steve Carell

  Talking, Years, Trying

  "‘Crazy, Stupid, Love’: Steve Carell Talks Divorce, Infidelity In New Film". Interview with Sara Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 29, 2011.

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• The first year of marriage is like wet cement

  Robert Wolgemuth

  Years, Firsts, First Year Marriage

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• We seldom give each other advice-I think that's the success of 25 years of marriage.

  Laura Bush

  Inspirational, Thinking, Years

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