1.
We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
Sam Keen
'We learn to love not by seeking out perfection, but by appreciating the beauty of imperfection in another.'
2.
Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.
Paulo Coelho
Affection is just an expression until someone comes along and imbues it with significance.
3.
Three things I want in a relationship: Eyes that won't cry, lips that won't lie, and love that won't die.
Wiz Khalifa
'Three desires I have in a relationship: Sight that won't shed tears, mouths that won't deceive, and adoration that won't expire.'
4.
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
H. L. Mencken
Affection is akin to battle: simple to commence yet immensely difficult to discontinue.
5.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Mignon McLaughlin
A fulfilling marriage necessitates experiencing the exhilaration of romance multiple times, each with one's beloved.
6.
A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane and smells like Cheetah.
Ronald Reagan
7.
Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.
Phyllis Diller
9.
A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.
Marilyn Monroe
10.
The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you.
Rumi
11.
Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.
Mae West
13.
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
Emily Bronte
15.
The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.
Lawrence Durrell
16.
You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
17.
Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.
Henny Youngman
18.
When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
Joseph Campbell
19.
You are the best thing that's ever been mine.
Taylor Swift
27.
We can't forget what happened on May 4th, 1970, when four students gave up their lives because they had the American constitutional right of peaceful protest. They gave up their lives. And to sing that song in that spot on that anniversary was very emotional for us.
Graham Nash
28.
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.
Simone Signoret
29.
To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.
Stephen Covey
30.
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.
George Bernard Shaw
31.
In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage.
Robert Anderson
32.
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
Pearl S. Buck
33.
Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends.
Barbara Johnson
34.
A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possibility that the other may be right, though neither believes it
Donald M. Fraser
35.
Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
S. J. Perelman
36.
Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.
Amy Grant
37.
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.
Pope John Paul II
38.
Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose.
Mitt Romney
39.
Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.
E. W. Howe
40.
The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
A. P. Herbert
41.
The secret to having a good marriage is to understand that marriage must
be total, it must be permanent, and it must be equal.
Frank Pittman
42.
The day before the anniversary of D-Day, we lost a man who was equaled by few and surpassed by none as a leader in the cause of freedom: Ronald Reagan.
Mac Thornberry
43.
Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.
Richard Bach
44.
My mother and stepfather were married 43 years, so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And, you know, it's just a number.
Jamie Lee Curtis
45.
A happy marriage is a new beginning of life, a new starting point for happiness and usefulness.
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
46.
On July 18, we will mark the 12th anniversary of the senseless loss of 85 lives in the bombing of the Jewish Cultural Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Tom Lantos
47.
I feel there should have been some recognition of the Spice Girls at this year's 25th anniversary. We flew the flag for Britain around the globe in the 1990s and we achieved a hell of a lot.
Melanie Chisholm
48.
In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
Elizabeth Ashley
49.
American people stopped to remember the third anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war. We thought first and foremost of the selflessness, patriotism and heroism by our troops, our National Guard and Reserves.
Rosa DeLauro