Marriage Is Not a Word 737.3
Marriage is not a word; it's a sentence.
Marriage is a three ring-circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, suffering.
A man is incomplete until he's married; then he's finished.
Marriage is finding the one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Why are there so many mean jokes about marriage?
Today, my bride and best friend Anne and I celebrate our 19th wedding anniversary – and our marriage is no joke.
Marrying Anne was the smartest thing I ever did. We had the best prenuptial agreement you could create: we promised to keep loving each other. And we have.
They say a wedding anniversary is a time to celebrate yesterday’s memories, today’s joys, and tomorrow’s hopes.
In fact, our memories of ten years of diapers, strollers, and car seats help transform today's constant chaos of serving and supervising four active and independent teenage daughters into a form joy.
Every milestone event proves the wisdom of Mignon McLaughlin's description of a successful marriage as falling in love many times with the same person.
A happy marriage is as hard and as simple as loving enough to forgive each other and forgiving enough to love each other, no matter what. It’s a continuous conversation with the person who cares about the things you care about more than anyone else in the world. It’s telling each other a thousand things without ever talking. It’s not being able to imagine being without each other.
Contrary to the jokes, marriages are not held together by chains but by the thousands of tiny threads representing shared experiences. I am grateful for every thread and looking forward to a few thousand more.
This is Michael Josephson reminding you that character counts.
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Here’s some favorite quotes about love and marriage:
A happy marriage begins when we marry the one we love, and blossoms when we love the one we married. –Sam Levinson
Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction. –Antoine de Saint-Exupery
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility. –George Levinger
Grow old with me!/The best is yet to be. –Robert Browning
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. –Marcel Proust
It doesn’t matter where you go in life, what you do... it’s who you have beside you.
There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to your loved one.
We have changed over the years, but the sparkle in your eyes is as bright as ever, and my love for you is even stronger.
Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away. –Dinah Craik
A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. –Ruth Bell Graham
Our wedding was many years ago. The celebration continues to this day. –Gene Perret
You make me want to be a better person.
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate. –Barnett R. Brickner
Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without. –James C. Dobson
A perfect marriage is one in which "I'm sorry" is said just often enough. –Mignon McLaughlin
My wife says I never listen, or something like that….
Marriage is when a man and woman become as one; the trouble starts when they try to decide which one.
The Japanese have a word for it. It’s Judo – the art of conquering by yielding. The Western equivalent of Judo is, “Yes dear." –J.P. McEvoy
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