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“Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.”

“But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.”

“Love one another, but make not a bond of love.”

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”

“I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.”

“Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.”

“The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.”

“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”

“If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.”

“A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.”

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”

“I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.”

“Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.”

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

“One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.”

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

“When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.”

“So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me... everyday.”

“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.”

“love one another, but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.”

“Let there be spaces in your togetherness”

“To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.”

“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.”

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