Timeless Love Quotes for Lasting 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.” —Rita Rudner

Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music, and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays." —Henny Youngman

Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow internet to see who they really are." —Will Ferrell

Monogamy is monotonous, but it’s safe, you know? And that’s my philosophy.” —Joy Behar

A great marriage is not when the ‘perfect couple’ comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.” —Dave Meurer

Love at first sight is easy to understand; it’s when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.” —Sam Levenson

The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.” —Henny Youngman

I married for love but the obvious side benefit of having someone around to find my glasses cannot be ignored." —Cameron Esposito

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.” —Ruth Bell Graham

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where, I love you directly without problems or pride: I love you like this because I don’t know any other way to love, except in this form in which I am not nor are you, so close that your hand upon my chest is mine, so close that your eyes close with my dreams.” —Pablo Nerud

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” —Maya Angelou

Love is a friendship set to music." —Joseph Campbell

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

If I had a flower for every time thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.” —Alfred, Lord Tennyson

This is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible beings who do not run away from life." —Paul Tournierelit 

To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness.” —Robert Braul

Love doesn’t make the world go round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” —Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is.” —Louis de Bernières

There are a hundred paths through the world that are easier than loving. But who wants easier?” —Mary Oliver

Marriage, ultimately, is the practice of becoming passionate friends.” —Harville Hendrix

Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.” —Samuel Richardson

 

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