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

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

“Where there is love there is life.”

“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.”

“I'm not sure there can be loving without commitment, although commitment takes all kinds of forms, and there can be commitment for the moment as well as commitment for all time. The kind that is essential for loving marriages - and love affairs, as well - is a commitment to preserving the essential quality of your partner's soul, adding to them as a person rather than taking away.”

“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.”

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

“Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.”

“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.”

“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.”

“In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.”

“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.”

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

“In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.”

“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?”

“The first duty of love is to listen.”