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“Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.”

“As you get older; you've probably noticed that you tend to forget things. You'll be talking with somebody at a party, and you'll know that you know this person, but no matter how hard you try, you can't remember his or her name. This can be very embarassing, especially if he or she turns out to be your spouse.”

“Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.”

“What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.”

“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.”

“Let there be spaces in your togetherness”

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

“Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.”

“A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.”

“There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day knowing someone on the other side of that door is waiting for the sound of his footsteps.”

“Marriage is like a golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.”

“And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.”

“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.”

“Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.”

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

“Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths”

“What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.”

“I have no way of knowing whether or not you married the wrong person. But I do know that if you treat the wrong person like the right person, you could well end up having married the right person after all. It is far more important to BE the right kind of person than it is to marry the right person.”