Quotes on Positive Marriage

a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude

Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

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

My mother once told me that if a married couple puts a penny in a pot for every time they make love in the first year, and takes a penny out every time after that, they'll never get all the pennies out of the pot.

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.

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

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

In the enriching of marriage, the big things are the little things. There must be constant appreciation for each other and thoughtful demonstration of gratitude. A couple must encourage and help each other grow. Marriage is a joint quest for the good, the beautiful, and the divine

Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.

The most precious gift that marriage gave me was the constant impact of something very close and intimate, yet all the time unmistakably other, resistant - in a word, real.

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

You were my strength when I was weak; you were my voice when I couldn't speak; you were my eyes when I couldn't see; you saw the best there was in me; lifted me up when I couldn't reach, you gave me faith cuz you believed. I'm everything I am because you loved me.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

Love like there's no tomorrow, and if tomorrow comes, love again.

When people tell me they've learned from experience, I tell them the trick is to learn from other people's experience.

The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity.