I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you.
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.
I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old.
grow old with me. the best is yet to be. the last of life for which the first was made.
One of the good things that come of a true marriage is, that there is one face on which changes come without your seeing them; or rather there is one face which you can still see the same, through all the shadows which years have gathered upon it.
That we arrived at fifty years together is due as much to luck as to love, and a talent for knowing, when we stumble, where to fall, and how to get up again.
Love has no age as it is always renewing itself.
Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths
Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.
One love, one heart, one destiny.
Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate.
There is no greater reason for children to honour parents than for parents to honour children except, that while the children are young, the parents are stronger than children.
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
Because of a great love, one is courageous.
What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
Heaven give you many, many merry days.
Happy and thrice happy are those who enjoy an uninterrupted union, and whose love, unbroken by any sour complaints, shall not dissolve until the last day of their existence.
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