1. Scripture says, in all labor there is profit and nowhere is this more true than in the marriage relationship.

- Wayne Mack

2. No relationship is all sunshine, but two people can share an umbrella and survive a storm together.

- Anonymous

3. I assumed all marriages which fail have one or both of the spouses doing something wrong and the wrongdoing leads to a breakup. I was wrong. Doing nothing is equally as bad. Because people don’t float together, they float apart. To stay together, you need a tether. To thrive, a couple must cling and cleave as if there’s a massive wave coming at them. Because there is a wave called drift – laziness, selfishness, convenience, comfortable, resentment, indiscipline, busy. And before long, you look a

- Ngina Otiende

4. It is incumbent upon you and your wife to each do what is dependent on them to bring their hearts together and strengthen peace in the home. And if they truly desire this, then surely they will succeed!

- Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson

5. Don’t smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

- Leo Buscaglia

6. Love is patient. Love is kind. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always preserves. Love never fails.

- 1 Corinthians 13:4

7. I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate then when I fall asleep your eyes close.

- Pablo Neruda

8. My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

- Winston Churchill

9. We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness–and call it love–true love.

- Robert Fulgham

10. When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

- When Harry Met Sally

11. Marriage is a wonderful institution… but who wants to live in an institution?

- Groucho Marx

12. What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life–to strength each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?

- George Eliot

13. Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

- Helen Keller

14. To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow–this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

15. Marriages are like fingerprints; each one is different and each one is beautiful.

- Maggie Reyes

16. Time is very slow for those who wait. Very fast for those who are scared. Very long for those who lament. Very short for those who celebrate. But for those who love, time is eternal.

- William Shakespeare

17. Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

- Epicurus

18. The essence of marriage is companionship, and the woman you face across the coffee urn every morning for ninety-nine years must be both able to appreciate your jokes and to sympathize with your aspirations.

- Elbert Hubbard

19. For you see, each day I love you more. Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.

- Rosemond Gerard

20. They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

21. There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day knowing someone on the other side of that door is waiting for the sound of his footsteps.

- Ronald Reagan

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

- Simone Signeret

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

- Andre Maurois

24. If you want your wife to listen to you, then talk to another woman; she will be all ears.

- Sigmund Freud

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

- Martin Luther

26. A strong marriage rarely has two people strong at the same time. It is a husband and wife who take turns being strong for each other in the moment the other is weak.

- Ashley Willis

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

- Martin Luther

28. You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.

- Oscar Wilde

29. Once upon a time, I became yours, and you became mine. And we’ll stay together through the tears and the laughter because that’s what they call happily-ever-after.

- Kathy R. Jeffords

30. To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.

- Criss Jami

31. We were perfectly happy until we decided to live happily ever after.

- Carrie Bradshaw, Sex and the City

32. When you love someone, you love them as the person they are, and not as you’d like them to be.

- Leo Tolstoy

33. Love is a gift of one’s inner most soul to another so both can be whole.

- Buddha

34. Marriage a bond between a person who never remembers anniversaries and another who never forgets them.

- Ogden Nash

35. You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

- Dr. Seuss

36. Love can come when you’re already who you are, when you’re filled with you. Not when you look to someone else to fill the empty space.

- Deb Caletti

37. Who, being loved, is poor?

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

39. Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

- Henry Ford

40. My wife told me the other day that I don’t take her to expensive places any more, so I took her to the gas station.

- Anonymous

41. Marriage is a gift from God to us. The quality of our marriages is a gift from us to Him.

- Anonymous

42. Marriage is a huge investment: of time, of energy and of emotion. Protect and keep contributing to your investment.

- Karen Gordon

43. Marriage is such a beautiful relationship and a gift from God. It’s God’s design, created between a man and a woman.

- Whitney Meade

44. The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they’re too old to do it.

- Ann Bancroft

45. In other relationships, people are different entities but in marriage, the couple is considered as one. This is what makes marriage a different kind of bond.

- Mark McGrann

46. Until you learn how to fight together, you will fight against each other.

- Anonymous

47. In your light, I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.

- Rumi

48. Simply put, a marriage is not a marriage without the existence of two individuals who promised to love each other.

- Jessica Gardner

49. The man who puts into marriage only half of what he owns will get that out.

- Ronald Reagan

50. If I had a flower for every time thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

51. A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

- Michel de Montaigne

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

- Fredrich Nietzche

53. What is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul.

- Victor Hugo

54. Always strive to give your spouse the very best of yourself; not what’s leftover after you have given your best to everyone else.

- Dave Willis

55. Marriage is like trading in the adoration of many for the sarcasm of one.

- Mae West

56. Marriage is over in an hour, and yet it takes a lifetime to be really married.

- E. Stanley Jones

57. There is no remedy for love but to love more.

- Henry David Thoreau

58. Everyone is born equal in life, until they get married.

- Anonymous

59. If I know what love is, it is because of you.

- Hermann Hasse

60. 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. Fill each other’s cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. Give your hearts, but not into

- Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

61. A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband. A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.

- Anonymous

62. 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.

- Nicholas Sparks

63. I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.

- Marilyn Monroe

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

- Benjamin Franklin

65. There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.

- Sarah Dessen

66. It’s the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.

- John Wooden

67. There are a hundred paths through the world that are easier than loving. But who wants easier?

- Mary Oliver

68. Marriage is another momentous life change. Choose right, and it might be the most positive decision you ever make.

- Patrick Foley

69. 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

70. When two people become one by way of marriage, it is not only their hearts that are united, but their minds and souls as well.

- Julie Donner Anderson

71. When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.

- C.S. Lewis

72. Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.

- Jim Rohn

73. I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I’ve led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.

- Nicholas Sparks

74. The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It’s a choice you make- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again – and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

- Barbara De Angelis

75. Your marriage is a glorious bond but don’t take it as an easy task. It is meant to be worked upon similar to all of your other relationships.

- Raymond Eido

76. Your absence has not taught me to be alone, it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall.

- Doug Fetherling

77. 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

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

- Dave Meurer

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Maya Angelou

81. As God by creation made two of one, so again by marriage He made one of two.

- Thomas Adams

82. You know, there is a name for people who are always wrong about everything all the time – Husband!

- Bill Maher

83. A good marriage is one where each partner secretly suspects they got the better deal.

- Anonymous