Love & Marriage

Some pray to marry the man they love, my prayer will somewhat vary:
I humbly pray to Heaven above that I love the man I marry.
--Rose Stokes

A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendships, all the enjoyment of sense and reason - and indeed all the sweets of life.
--Joseph Addison (The Spectator Magazine)

Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
--Robert Browning

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined together to strengthen each other in all labour, to minister to each other in all sorrow, to share with each other in all gladness, to be one with each other in the silent unspoken memories?
-- George Eliot

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
--Honoré de Balzac

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
--Michel de Montaigne

If love is a dream, then marriage is the alarm clock.
--John Hagee

Love is like a game of chess:
One false move and you're mated.
--Author Unknown

Marriage is like the army. Everybody complains, but you'd be surprised at how many re-enlist.
--Anonymous

I would like to have engraved inside every wedding band, "Be kind to one another." This is the Golden Rule of marriage and the secret of making love last through the years.
--Randolph Roy

Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.
--Abraham Lincoln

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

Opposites attract, but after marriage, opposites attack. Most of the time, we are attracted to people who don't have the things that we have. Incompatibility is why we get married, but it's also used as a reason to divorce. Incompatibility is just a lack of communication. If we just try to love [our spouse] the way we want to be loved, we are in trouble. Unless you communicate, it's difficult to know how to love another person.
--Dr. Charles Lowery.

Marriage is when a man and woman become as one; the trouble starts when they try to decide which one.
--Author Unknown

God made many puzzle pieces, but only those two 'cut out' for each other, can fit together to create a perfect and beautiful picture.
--Jessica Cochran

A good wife is more precious than jewels.
-- Proverbs 31: 10-12, 25-31

When I was a young man,
I vowed never to marry until
I found the ideal woman.
Well, I found her.
But, alas, she was waiting
for the ideal man.
--Robert Schuman

Anyone who marries for money earns every cent of it.
--Anonymous

Indeed, if one can say that one has built genuinely loving relationships with a spouse and children, then one has already succeeded in accomplishing more than most people accomplish in a lifetime.
--The Road Less Traveled