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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.”

“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”

“There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.”

“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.”

“All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.”

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

“There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.”

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

“I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.”

“A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.”

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

“Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.”

“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.”

“Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry.”

“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.”

“Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?”

“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.”

“Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.”

“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.”