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“A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”

“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?”

“The first duty of love is to listen.”

“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.”

“Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.”

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

“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.”

“Two minds with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.”

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

“Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be.”

“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”

“A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.”

“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.”

“Marriage: If you want something to last forever, you treat it differently. You shield it and protect it. You never abuse it. You don't expose it to the elements. You don't make it common or ordinary. If it ever becomes tarnished, you lovingly polish it until it gleams like new. It becomes special because you have made it so, and it grows more beautiful and precious as time goes by.”

“The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make on your wedding day, and over and over again and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband.”

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