1.
When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.
Prince Philip
When a man holds the door for his better half, it's either a new set of wheels or a new relationship.
2.
Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
Lewis Grizzard
I'm going to locate a female I don't care for and bestow her with a residence.
3.
I came from a big family. As a matter of fact, I never got to sleep alone until I was married.
Lewis Grizzard
'I was raised in a large clan. In actuality, I never had the luxury of sleeping solo until after my nuptials.'
4.
When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.
Leo Tolstoy
"When you adore somebody, you love them unconditionally and accept them just as they are."
5.
There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.
John Lennon
6.
When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
Friedrich Nietzsche
When tying the knot, contemplate this inquiry: Can you envision yourself conversing comfortably with this individual throughout your life? Everything else in matrimony is fleeting.
7.
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Affection, passion, ardor - that is the essence of brilliance.
8.
Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
No matter where we go, our hearts will always remain in the place we call home.
9.
All I know is it destroyed my family, it destroyed my marriage to Sylvester and I will never get over it.
Brigitte Nielsen
'It ruined my family unit, it broke apart my relationship with Sylvester and the pain will linger forever.'
10.
You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her. Never underestimate the power of love. The way to love anything is to realize it may be lost. The heart has its reasons that reason does not know at all. Music is love in search of a word. There is pleasure in the pathless woods; there is a rapture on the lonely shore; There is society, where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar.
Lord Byron
11.
The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The potency of affection will invariably surpass the potency of malice. Any country or alliance of countries that utilizes animosity eventually succumbs to its own malevolence.
12.
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
Khalil Gibran
If you are fond of someone, set them free; if they return to you, they were always yours. If they don't, they never truly belonged.
13.
Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be.
William Wordsworth
Let us journey through life together. There are still greater heights to reach.
14.
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
Mother Teresa
'I have uncovered the enigma, that if you adore until it pains, there can be no more agony, only greater affection.'
15.
We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.
Virginia Satir
"We need 4 caresses a day for endurance. We need 8 embraces a day for upkeep. We need 12 cuddles a day for advancement."
16.
Marriage: If you want something to last forever, you treat it differently. You shield it and protect it. You never abuse it. You don't expose it to the elements. You don't make it common or ordinary. If it ever becomes tarnished, you lovingly polish it until it gleams like new. It becomes special because you have made it so, and it grows more beautiful and precious as time goes by.
F. Burton Howard
17.
A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself -- to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart
Leo Buscaglia
18.
If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.
Gary Smalley
If a man truly wishes to connect with his wife, he must immerse himself in her realm of feelings.
19.
Make it your goal to create a marriage that feels like the safest place on earth.
Gary Smalley
Aim to build a union that is the most secure sanctuary on earth.
20.
Fight less, cuddle more. Demand less, serve more. Text less, talk more. Criticize less, compliment more. Stress less, laugh more. worry less, pray more. With each new day, find new ways to love each other even more.
Dave Willis
21.
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.
Washington Irving
22.
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
Leo Tolstoy
The key to a successful union is not necessarily how well you get along, but rather how you manage your differences.
23.
There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day knowing someone on the other side of that door is waiting for the sound of his footsteps.
Ronald Reagan
The greatest joy for a man is to approach his home after a long day, eagerly anticipating the sound of his arrival.
24.
Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
Martin Luther
Encourage the spouse to create a warm atmosphere in which the other partner is delighted to arrive home and regretful to depart.
25.
Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you.
Mike Murdock
Every bond cultivates a potency or frailty within you.
26.
Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
Edgar Allan Poe
Decades of affection have been forgotten, In the loathing of an instant.
27.
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
Stephen Leacock
'Numerous individuals enamored with an indentation are prone to wed the woman in her entirety.'
28.
A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
A man enamored is incomplete until he has wed. Then he's completed.
29.
How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own?
Zsa Zsa Gabor
'How many other marital partners have I had? Excluding myself, of course.'
30.
A girl must marry for love, and keep on marrying until she finds it.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
A female must wed for passionate affection, and continue matrimony until she discovers it.
31.
And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.
Khalil Gibran
Let the breezes of the sky frolic between you.
32.
What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.
Mother Teresa
Encourage domestic tranquility by cherishing your relatives.
33.
Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
Robert Fulghum
Be mindful that youngsters are always observing you; don't fret that they never heed you.
34.
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
Oscar Wilde
What can be expected of a woman to be content with a man who insists on treating her as an ordinary person?
35.
Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.
Mother Teresa
Cherishing those nearest and dearest commences with providing for them at home.
36.
The first duty of love is to listen.
Paul Tillich
The opening obligation of affection is to lend an ear.
37.
The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.
Jackie Kennedy
The initial union is bound by affection, the second by finance, and the third for friendship.
38.
I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.
Marie Corelli
39.
I have learned that a woman can be a fighter, a freedom fighter, a political activist, and that she can fall in love, and be loved, she can be married, have children, be a mother... Revolution must mean life also; every aspect of life.
Leila Khaled
40.
I never hated a man enough to give him diamonds back.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
I never detested a person so much as to return the gems they gave me.
41.
God created sex. Priests created marriage.
Voltaire
God fashioned intimacy. Clerics established wedlock.
42.
The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn't say.
Alfred Hitchcock
The perfect spouse comprehends each emotion his better half does not express.
43.
Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.
Ovid
Conflicts are the inheritance wedded couples give each other.
44.
Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.
Nicholas Sparks
Affection is like a breeze, invisible but perceptible.
45.
Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.
Sai Baba
Cherish each other and assist others to ascend to higher standards, simply by distributing affection. Affection is contagious and the supreme curative force.
46.
Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
Amy Bloom
Union is not a ceremony or a conclusion. It is a lengthy, complicated, close tango together and nothing is more vital than your own impression of equilibrium and your selection of companion.
47.
I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender.
Rodney Dangerfield
48.
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
Tom Robbins
49.
The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him.
Oscar Wilde
50.
Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without.
James Dobson