Whether your wedding is coming up, or you’re celebrating your 40th year together, here are some oh so romantic quotes.
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“A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.-Ruth Bell Graham
“Love and marriage, love and marriage, go together like a horse and carriage. This I tell ya, brother, you can’t have one without the other.-Frank Sinatra
“You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.-Nicholas Sparks
“A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.-Jane Austen
“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.-Mignon McLaughlin
“We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness.-Ellen Goodman
“What greater thing is there for two human souls that to feel that they are joined… to strengthen each other… to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.-George Eliot
“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.-Nicole Krauss
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.-Friedrich Nietzsche
“The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.-Gabriel García Márquez
“You’re the only thing I know like the back of my hand.-Unknown
“To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.-Anna Louise Strong
“Love is often the fruit of marriage.-Moliere
“I love being married. It’s so great to find one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.-Rita Rudner
“Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else.-Nicholas Sparks
“To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you’re wrong, admit it; Whenever you’re right, shut up.-Ogden Nash
“Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage.-Ambrose Bierce
“Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.-George Eliot
“No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater…The love we have for each other is bigger than these small differences. And that’s the key. It’s like a big pie chart, and the love in a relationship has to be the biggest piece. Love can make up for a lot.-Sarah Dessen
“One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.-Judith Viorst
“We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.-Sam Keen
“A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he’s finished.-Zsa Zsa Gabor
“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
“Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.-Benjamin Franklin
“Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.-C.S. Lewis
“To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow – this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.-Elizabeth Gilbert
“In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.-Erich Fromm
“You are the answer to every prayer I’ve offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don’t know how I could have lived without you for as long as I have.-Nicholas Sparks
“When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.-Elizabeth Bowen
“Love means to commit yourself without guarantee.-Anne Campbell
“Right now we are here, and nothing can mar our perfection, or steal the joy of this perfect moment.-Audrey Niffenegger
“If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.-Michel de Montaigne
“It is possible to be in love with you just because of who you are.-Maggie Stiefvater
“Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.-Ellen Key
“You know it’s never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It’s always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.-Jodi Picoult, Mercy
“Getting divorced just because you don’t love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.-Zsa Zsa Gabor
“Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone’s bad qualities because they somehow complete you.-Sarah Dessen
“Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.-Peter Ustinov
“The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being.-Tom Robbins
“Each moment of a happy lover’s hour is worth an age of dull and common life.-Aphra Behn
“Being with you never felt wrong. It’s the one thing I did right. You’re the one thing I did right.-Becca Fitzpatrick
“Sometimes it’s hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man.-Tammy Wynette
