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“Marriage is a pretty amazing thing when you think about it. For two people to live together for so long under the same roof is a big accomplishment. Fifty-year anniversaries are becoming extinct, yet again proving that long marriages deserve awards and praise. Sometimes I see old people in restaurants sitting together eating their meals and I watch them. Sometimes it makes me sad. They don't even talk. Is it because they have nothing else to say, or can they simply read each other's mind by now?”

Source: Life Laughs: The Naked Truth about Motherhood, Marriage, and Moving On

“I never felt I could give up my life of freedom to become a man's housekeeper. When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she became a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll. Had I married at twenty-one, I would have been either a drudge or a doll for fifty-five years. Think of it!”

Ifs Thinking Men Giving Years Has Beens Young Girl Felt Wealth Freedom Marriage Poverty Five Giving Up Married Twenties Five Years Fifty Dolls Twenty One Housekeepers

Author:Susan B. Anthony

“Women--one half the human race at least--care fifty times more for a marriage than a ministry.”

Humans Care Race Half Marriage Human Race Fifty Ministry One Half

Author:Walter Bagehot

“Quantum field theory, which was born just fifty years ago from the marriage of quantum mechanics with relativity, is a beautiful but not very robust child.”

Years Children Beautiful Born Beauty Marriage Fields Theory Birth Years Ago Fifty Quantum Mechanic Relativity Quantum Mechanics Robust

Author:Steven Weinberg

“You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.”

Knows Love Inspirational Firsts Hard Fall Marriage Falling In Love Inequality Thirty Fifty Forty Sixty Rolling Sail Seventies Pedestal Love And Marriage Best Marriage Along For The Ride

Book:Mercy

Source: Mercy

“I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.”

Source: Selected Letters

“When asked his secret of love, being married fifty-four years to the same person, he said, "Ruth and I are happily incompatible."”

Years Persons Said Love Is Secret Marriage Four Married Fifty Four Years Being Married Ruth Positive Marriage Lasting Marriage Years Of Marriage Encouraging Marriage

Author:Billy Graham

“People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.”

People Trying Years Hard Used Marriage Easier Years Ago Divorce Fifty

Author:Mary Wesley

“Marriage is worse than dying. Why stay with one person for fifty years? We advise against marriage.”

Years Persons Marriage Dying Fifty Advise

Author:Joey Ramone

“I've been married fifty-five years and I've been home three weeks.”

Years Home Three Marriage Five Week Married Five Years Fifty

Author:Bob Hope