POSITIVE MARRIAGE QUOTES

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


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Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins. ~Langdon Mitchell

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Bride, n. A woman with a fine prospect behind her. ~Ambrose Bierce, 

That quiet mutual gaze of a trusting husband and wife is like the first moment of rest or refuge from a great weariness or a great danger. ~George Eliot

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The husband who doesn't tell his wife everything probably reasons that what she doesn't know won't hurt him. ~Leo J. Burke

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Pity all newlyweds. She cooks something nice for him, and he brings her flowers, and they kiss and think: How easy marriage is. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

The best time to love with your whole heart is always now, in this moment, because no breath beyond the current is promised.

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To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness.

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Make a list of ten of your spouse’s faults, which, for the sake of your marriage, you will always overlook. You can live with those ten.

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In every marriage, more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and to continue to find, grounds for marriage.

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Two things are owed to truthfulness: lasting marriages and short friendships.

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One man's folly is another man's wife. ~Helen Rowland

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We sat side by side in the morning light and looked out at the future together.

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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward in the same direction.

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Love is not what the mind thinks, but what the heart feels.

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Marriage is a thousand little things that make up the sum of our vows.

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A great marriage isn’t something that just happens; it’s something that must be created.

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Being someone’s first love may be great, but to be their last is beyond perfect.


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Don’t compare your love story to those you watch in movies. They’re written by screenwriters, yours is written by God.


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Any reason is a good reason and any time is a good time to say ‘I Love You.’


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When a wife has a good husband, it is easily seen on her face.

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Love is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other everyday.

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Happily married people know that keeping score is what unhappily married people do.