Marriage Quotes: A bit long but you might want to print it out and read them
Marriage Quotes:
Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
Robert Fulghum
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What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.
Leo Tolstoy
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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, The Skin of Our Teeth
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Get Married
Stay Married
What a concept.
The Snipe
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Love is a feeling, Marriage is a contract, and a Relationship is work.
Lori Gordon
***************
One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with each other, it keeps you together until maybe
you fall in again.
Judith Viorst
*****************
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Albert Schweitzer
****************
Commitment has kind eyes. He wears sturdy shoes. Everything is vivid when he is around. It is wonderful to sit and have lunch in his gardens around harvest time. You can taste in the vegetables that the soil has been cared for.
J. Ruth Gendler
***************
I think a man and a woman should choose each other for life, for the simple reason that a long life with all its accidents is barely enough time for a man and a woman to understand each other and. . . To understand - is to love.'
John Butler Yeats
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Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
****************
It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, writing to a young bride and groom from his prison cell in
Nazi Germany in 1943
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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered with disputes.
Robert Louis Stevenson
*****************
We have a group of...very passionate, romantic couples. They sort of enjoy...the bickering and the arguing... to them, it symbolizes real involvement and connection.
John Gottman, PhD, on observations at his U. of Washington 'Love Lab'
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Any fool can have a trophy wife. It takes a real man to have a trophy marriage.
Diane Sollee
***************
As I've been saying for maybe thirty years: 'It is necessary but insufficient to stay married for the children's sake. It is also necessary to stay happily married for the children's sake.' I'm so glad someone noticed that marriage doesn't have to make
you miserable. It is just so easy to be happy I don't understand why it isn't more popular.
Frank Pittman, MD
****************
Love is no assignment for cowards.
Ovid
****************
My heart is ever at your service.
William Shakespeare
****************
Marriage isn't supposed to make you happy - it's supposed to make you married.
Frank Pittman
****************
Marriage isn't supposed to make you happy - it's your job to make your marriage happy.
Diane Sollee
****************
The development of a really good marriage is not a natural process. It is an achievement.
David and Vera Mace
****************
The challenge is to help couples turn 'I Do' into 'We Can.'
Scott Stanley, PhD
***************
They haven't found Mr. Right. Maybe there's just a Mr. OK or Mr. Pretty Good.
Linda Waite, PhD, coauthor of 'The Case for Marriage'
******************
Getting married is the boldest and most idealistic thing that most of us will ever do.
Maggie Gallgher, coauthor of 'The Case for Marriage'
******************
Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner, it feels limitless, not limited.
Gloria Steinem, 2000, upon marrying for the first time at age 66
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Love doesn't commit suicide. We have to kill it.
Diane Sollee
***************
Why would a couple that lives and sleeps together every night need dates and rituals? Precisely because they live and sleep
together.
Bill Doherty, author of Take Back Your Marriage
**************
Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.
Dr. Joyce Brothers
***************
I often wonder when the wedding couple will realize just how much hard work they've taken on by consecrating that quirky emotion called love into the formal tie of marriage.
Lois Smith Brady, NY Times 'Vows' columnist
***************
They do not love who do not show their love.
William Shakespeare
***************
As much as I would miss my wife if she were to die, I would miss what we are together even more. Our 'we-ness' our 'us-ness.'
Carl Whitaker, family therapy pioneer
*****************
When there are kids involved, there's no such thing as divorce.
Carl Whitaker
*****************
Once it's established that we are a team, I can demand of you and expect you to demand of me. Life without pain is an addiction and the fantasy of perpetual happiness is like the 'delusion of fusion.'
Carl Whitaker
*****************
There is a proverb. 'As you have made your bed, so you must lie in it, ' which is simply a lie. If I have made my bed uncomfortable, please God, I will make it again.
G.K. Chesterson
(after learning some marriage skills, we assume is what he means...)
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All those 'and they lived happily ever after' fairy tale endings need to be changed to 'and they began the very hard work of making their marriages happy.''
Linda Miles, coauthor of The New Marriage
**************
Stephen Covey was asked after a speech about how to forgive someone who has committed adultery. He said the question made him think of the old prayer, 'Oh Lord, let me forgive those who sin differently than I do.'
Stephen Covey, author of 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families
**************
What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
George Eliot
*************
Be presidents of each other's fan clubs.
Tony Heath
*************
Love is a four-letter word spelled T-I-M-E.
anonymous
*************
People change and forget to tell each other.
Lillian Hellman
*************
As a country, we need to find a way to fund marriage-rescue help with 'insurance' or something. Marriage Insurance - what a concept! Marriage license fees could triple and they might cover such a thing!
Judy Parejko, www.DivorceResourceCenter.com
*************
Advocates of easy divorce say: How cruel it is to keep people tied together when they are not happy! It's true that all restraints are in a sense cruel, but without the sturdy fence, the bawling cattle in the pasture would be destroying themselves in the green corn and damp alfalfa. And so it is with the restraints on divorce.
Fred Hanson, Uniform Marriage and Divorce Act, commissioner expressing
disapproval of changing from a 'fault-based' to a 'no-fault' system of divorce, 1970
*************
Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.
I Corinthians 13:7
*************
Marriage, families, all relationshps are more a process of learning the dance rather than finding the right dancer.
Paul Pearsall
*************
One of the Secrets of a Great Marriage: The Best Gift I Ever Received
by Bob Burg - (click to read , this great piece is too long to include here.)
****************
ACCEPT - the secret of a good marriage.
Attraction
Communication
Commitment
Enjoyment
Purpose
Trust
Anonymous
****************
The Beauty of Love:
The question is asked, 'Is there anything more beautiful in life than a young couple clasping hands and pure hearts in the path of marriage? Can there be anything more beautiful than young love?' And the answer is given. 'Yes, there is a more beautiful thing. It is the spectacle of an old man and an old woman finishing their journey together on that path. Their hands are gnarled, but still clasped; their faces are seamed, but still radiant; their hearts are physically bowed and tired, but still strong with love and devotion for one another. Yes, there is a more beautiful thing than young love. Old love.'
- Anonymous
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In one of his famous Lake Woebegon monologues, humorist Garrison Keillor described a long married couple. Every night the husband consumed a generous portion of the same menu offering. (Breaded veal cutlets as I recall). Every night over the course of four decades, the husband devoured the cutlets, wiped his face with a napkin, pushed his chair away from the table and looked his wife in they eye. He smiled at her and spoke in a tender voice, 'That's the best you've ever done.' It may sound monotonous to you, but to her his words of appreciation sounded like sweet music.
Norm Bales, All About Families
*************
The Time is Now
If you are ever going to love me, Love me now, while I can know The sweet and tender feelings Which from true affection flow.
Love me now While I am living. Do not wait until I'm gone And then have it chiseled in marble, Sweet words on ice-cold stone.
If you have tender thoughts of me, Please tell me now.
- Anonymous
Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
Robert Fulghum
****************
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.
Leo Tolstoy
****************
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, The Skin of Our Teeth
**************
Get Married
Stay Married
What a concept.
The Snipe
***************
Love is a feeling, Marriage is a contract, and a Relationship is work.
Lori Gordon
***************
One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with each other, it keeps you together until maybe
you fall in again.
Judith Viorst
*****************
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Albert Schweitzer
****************
Commitment has kind eyes. He wears sturdy shoes. Everything is vivid when he is around. It is wonderful to sit and have lunch in his gardens around harvest time. You can taste in the vegetables that the soil has been cared for.
J. Ruth Gendler
***************
I think a man and a woman should choose each other for life, for the simple reason that a long life with all its accidents is barely enough time for a man and a woman to understand each other and. . . To understand - is to love.'
John Butler Yeats
****************
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
****************
It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, writing to a young bride and groom from his prison cell in
Nazi Germany in 1943
*****************
Marriage is one long conversation, checkered with disputes.
Robert Louis Stevenson
*****************
We have a group of...very passionate, romantic couples. They sort of enjoy...the bickering and the arguing... to them, it symbolizes real involvement and connection.
John Gottman, PhD, on observations at his U. of Washington 'Love Lab'
************************
Any fool can have a trophy wife. It takes a real man to have a trophy marriage.
Diane Sollee
***************
As I've been saying for maybe thirty years: 'It is necessary but insufficient to stay married for the children's sake. It is also necessary to stay happily married for the children's sake.' I'm so glad someone noticed that marriage doesn't have to make
you miserable. It is just so easy to be happy I don't understand why it isn't more popular.
Frank Pittman, MD
****************
Love is no assignment for cowards.
Ovid
****************
My heart is ever at your service.
William Shakespeare
****************
Marriage isn't supposed to make you happy - it's supposed to make you married.
Frank Pittman
****************
Marriage isn't supposed to make you happy - it's your job to make your marriage happy.
Diane Sollee
****************
The development of a really good marriage is not a natural process. It is an achievement.
David and Vera Mace
****************
The challenge is to help couples turn 'I Do' into 'We Can.'
Scott Stanley, PhD
***************
They haven't found Mr. Right. Maybe there's just a Mr. OK or Mr. Pretty Good.
Linda Waite, PhD, coauthor of 'The Case for Marriage'
******************
Getting married is the boldest and most idealistic thing that most of us will ever do.
Maggie Gallgher, coauthor of 'The Case for Marriage'
******************
Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner, it feels limitless, not limited.
Gloria Steinem, 2000, upon marrying for the first time at age 66
******************
Love doesn't commit suicide. We have to kill it.
Diane Sollee
***************
Why would a couple that lives and sleeps together every night need dates and rituals? Precisely because they live and sleep
together.
Bill Doherty, author of Take Back Your Marriage
**************
Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.
Dr. Joyce Brothers
***************
I often wonder when the wedding couple will realize just how much hard work they've taken on by consecrating that quirky emotion called love into the formal tie of marriage.
Lois Smith Brady, NY Times 'Vows' columnist
***************
They do not love who do not show their love.
William Shakespeare
***************
As much as I would miss my wife if she were to die, I would miss what we are together even more. Our 'we-ness' our 'us-ness.'
Carl Whitaker, family therapy pioneer
*****************
When there are kids involved, there's no such thing as divorce.
Carl Whitaker
*****************
Once it's established that we are a team, I can demand of you and expect you to demand of me. Life without pain is an addiction and the fantasy of perpetual happiness is like the 'delusion of fusion.'
Carl Whitaker
*****************
There is a proverb. 'As you have made your bed, so you must lie in it, ' which is simply a lie. If I have made my bed uncomfortable, please God, I will make it again.
G.K. Chesterson
(after learning some marriage skills, we assume is what he means...)
**************
All those 'and they lived happily ever after' fairy tale endings need to be changed to 'and they began the very hard work of making their marriages happy.''
Linda Miles, coauthor of The New Marriage
**************
Stephen Covey was asked after a speech about how to forgive someone who has committed adultery. He said the question made him think of the old prayer, 'Oh Lord, let me forgive those who sin differently than I do.'
Stephen Covey, author of 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families
**************
What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
George Eliot
*************
Be presidents of each other's fan clubs.
Tony Heath
*************
Love is a four-letter word spelled T-I-M-E.
anonymous
*************
People change and forget to tell each other.
Lillian Hellman
*************
As a country, we need to find a way to fund marriage-rescue help with 'insurance' or something. Marriage Insurance - what a concept! Marriage license fees could triple and they might cover such a thing!
Judy Parejko, www.DivorceResourceCenter.com
*************
Advocates of easy divorce say: How cruel it is to keep people tied together when they are not happy! It's true that all restraints are in a sense cruel, but without the sturdy fence, the bawling cattle in the pasture would be destroying themselves in the green corn and damp alfalfa. And so it is with the restraints on divorce.
Fred Hanson, Uniform Marriage and Divorce Act, commissioner expressing
disapproval of changing from a 'fault-based' to a 'no-fault' system of divorce, 1970
*************
Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.
I Corinthians 13:7
*************
Marriage, families, all relationshps are more a process of learning the dance rather than finding the right dancer.
Paul Pearsall
*************
One of the Secrets of a Great Marriage: The Best Gift I Ever Received
by Bob Burg - (click to read , this great piece is too long to include here.)
****************
ACCEPT - the secret of a good marriage.
Attraction
Communication
Commitment
Enjoyment
Purpose
Trust
Anonymous
****************
The Beauty of Love:
The question is asked, 'Is there anything more beautiful in life than a young couple clasping hands and pure hearts in the path of marriage? Can there be anything more beautiful than young love?' And the answer is given. 'Yes, there is a more beautiful thing. It is the spectacle of an old man and an old woman finishing their journey together on that path. Their hands are gnarled, but still clasped; their faces are seamed, but still radiant; their hearts are physically bowed and tired, but still strong with love and devotion for one another. Yes, there is a more beautiful thing than young love. Old love.'
- Anonymous
****************
In one of his famous Lake Woebegon monologues, humorist Garrison Keillor described a long married couple. Every night the husband consumed a generous portion of the same menu offering. (Breaded veal cutlets as I recall). Every night over the course of four decades, the husband devoured the cutlets, wiped his face with a napkin, pushed his chair away from the table and looked his wife in they eye. He smiled at her and spoke in a tender voice, 'That's the best you've ever done.' It may sound monotonous to you, but to her his words of appreciation sounded like sweet music.
Norm Bales, All About Families
*************
The Time is Now
If you are ever going to love me, Love me now, while I can know The sweet and tender feelings Which from true affection flow.
Love me now While I am living. Do not wait until I'm gone And then have it chiseled in marble, Sweet words on ice-cold stone.
If you have tender thoughts of me, Please tell me now.
- Anonymous
