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Marriage didnt really seem to be about love; it was about the ability to live together for a long period of time
— Jodi Picoult
... having been with Boaz for so long that she could predict every one of his moves, their sex life was more like a race to see who came first.
— Molly Antopol
Ours is a long marriage, and we have found solitude together. [p. 23]
— Carolyn G. Heilbrun
I think I know the secret to a long and happy marriage - just choose someone you can't live without.
— Lisa Kleypas
The secret to a long marriage in the film industry? Marry someone wonderful, as I did. And always have her come along on location.
— Christopher Lee
No marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners.
— Elisabeth Elliot
The secret to a long and loving marriage is to choose, everyday, to be married.
— Jacqueline Patricks
Some Englishman once said that marriage is a long dull meal with the pudding served first.
— Julian Barnes
A marriage, even one that goes awry, generates claims and needs that persist like an afterglow long after the emotional fire is burned out.
— Wallis Simpson
It took me too long to realise that if you go to a marriage counsellor to resolve problems, it's in his interest to keep the marriage going.
— Michael Douglas
The secret to a long and healthy marriage is to work at it and don't try and change each other.
— Jack LaLanne
This is what intimacy does to us over time. That's what a long marriage can do: It causes us to inherit and trade each other's stories. (p.237)
— Elizabeth Gilbert
If you love a girl, you never give up on her, no matter how long she resists you.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man'sto keep unmarried as long as he can. — George Bernard Shaw
Men never know how tired they are till their wives sit them down for a nice long talk.
— Mignon McLaughlin
Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.
— P. J. O'Rourke
The secret of a long marriage is shaving your legs every day ... because it shows you still care.
— Gloria Estefan
My parents had a long and eventful marriage and were always a bit like movie stars to me when they were young.
— Monique Roffey
You surely know that in the course of a long marriage it is not unusual for a husband or a wife to develop a crush on someone else.
— Elizabeth Strout
My parents have a wonderful marriage, for many years. But I can't commit myself for such a long time.
— Kim Wilde
Clearly the key to having a long and successful marriage would be to have a non-lethal heart attack every three months or so
— David Nicholls
Many brief folliesthat is what you call love. And your marriage puts an end to many brief follies, with a single long stupidity. — Friedrich Nietzsche
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
— Anne Taylor Fleming
Love may start out as a good feeling, but to love someone long-term is an act of the will.
— Elizabeth George
Philosophers have a long tradition of marrying stupid women, from Socrates on. They think it clever.
— Simon Gray
Humph! A text message that said, 'What's up, sexy?' You call that setting a mood? Love making takes place long before the bedroom -
— N. Wood Lane
Marriage is a very long process ...
— Elizabeth Goudge
It is said that marriage is a long war between ancient families trapped in close proximity by lust.
— Mark Helprin
During a long and varied career as a bachelor, I have noticed that marriage is the death of politeness between a man and a woman.
— Arnold Bennett
Between people long-married there is a diplomacy of the eyes
— Gregory Benford
Marriage is a unique cultural relationship that has a long-standing tradition and societal meaning, which should not be redefined by the courts.
— James Lankford
A good marriage drags a long tail of memory behind it. A single word or gesture, a tone of voice can conjure up so many remembrances.
— William Landay
My mother and father met at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He was a senior and she was a junior, and their marriage didn't last very long.
— Michael Douglas
Marriage is like a long conversation that always ends too soon.
— Cassandra Clare
A long marriage is very unifying, even if it's not ideal, and those old structures must be respected.
— Iris Murdoch
The key to a long and healthy marriage is that, honestly, there's nothing worth fighting about.
— Jay Leno
A happy wedlock is a long falling in love.
— Theodore Parker
A truth emerges in any long marriage, and the truth is this: Our spouses sometimes know us better than we even know ourselves.
— Nicholas Sparks
I yearned for a long, happy marriage with one person.
— Ginger Rogers
The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.
— Dolly Parton
One thing you learn in a long marriage is how many sneezes to wait before saying, Bless you.
— Robert Breault
Maybe we don't get a long past. Maybe we just get a future.
— Jacquelyn Mitchard
Marriage is a long-lasting friendship.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
They sat a moment in embrace of silent mutual comfort, which was, she often thought, the reward of those long married.
— Helen Simonson
The world says of marriage: A short joy and a long displeasure. But he who understands it finds in it delight, love, and joy without ceasing.
— Martin Luther
My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.
— Olivia Williams
Marriage is wild. I thought it was this perfect land of happiness and joy. Wrong! After you say you do, you don't for a long time.
— John Leguizamo
Such a large sweet fruit is a complete marriage, that it needs a very long summer to ripen in and then a long winter to mellow and season it.
— Theodore Parker
