Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

— Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American artist and writer in both Arabic and English, 1883-1931

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

— Peter de Vries, U.S. editor and novelist known for his satiric wit, 1910-1993

She: ‘Before we got married, you told me you were well-off.’ He: ‘I was and didn’t know it.’ Jacob Braude, U.S. writer of wit and humor books)

— Unknown Source

If men and women really suit each other . . . they should live next door—and just visit now and then.

— Katharine Hepburn, U.S. Academy award-winning actress, 1907-2003

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

— Mignon McLaughlin, U.S. journalist and author, 1913-1983

A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.

— Anne Taylor Fleming, U.S. journalist, novelist, and television commentator

Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate.

— Barnett R. Brickner, U.S. Rabbi and founder of the Natl. Jewish Education Association, 1892-1958

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.

— Robert Quillen, U.S. journalist and cartoonist, 1887-1948

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.

— Phyllis Diller, U.S. actress and stand-up comedian, 1917-2012

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

— Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

— Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900

A wise woman will always let her husband have her way.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish satirist, a playwright, poet, and long-term owner of the London Theatre Royal, 1751-1816

It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

— Benjamin Disraeli, British politician and writer who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1804-1881

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

— Samuel Johnson, English writer, moralist, literary critic, and lexicographer, 1709-1784

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

— Simone Signoret, French cinema actress who won a U.S. Academy Award, 1921-1985

If thee marries for money, thee surely will earn it.

— Ezra Bowen, U.S. politician

Let there be spaces in your togetherness.

— Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American artist and writer in both Arabic and English, 1883-1931

A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple.

— Danish proverb

Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

— Benjamin Franklin, as one of the Founders of the U.S., he was a leading author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790

Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage; and half shut afterward.

— Thomas Fuller, English churchman, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661

The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.

— George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950

You don’t marry one person; you marry three: the person you think they are, the person they are, and the person they are going to become as the result of being.

— Richard J. Needham, Canadian humor columnist, 1912-1996
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