Long Marriage Quotes
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Long Marriage Quotes & Sayings
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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
Somehow, we both got carried away. I don't know exactly how it happened, but before long, I knew nothing was ever going to be the same.
— Brenda Perlin
Marriage is overdone. As long as there are people, people are going to find it interesting.
— Augusten Burroughs
We were together even when we were apart.
— Shannon A. Thompson
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
When the battle is long and hard the victory is even sweeter
— Anthony Venn-Brown
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
YOU HAVE THE POWER TO KEEP THE LOVE ALIVE BUT TAKING IN CONSIDERATION WHAT IT IS IMPORTANT FOR YOUR MAN
— Linda Alfiori
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
It was only long after the ceremony that we learned why we got married in the first place.
— Lois Wyse
Some Englishman once said that marriage is a long dull meal with the pudding served first.
— Julian Barnes
Even before we met and long after we're both gone, my heart lives inside of yours. I'm forever and ever in love with you.
— Crystal Woods
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.
— Oscar Wilde
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
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[O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine.
— Charlotte Bronte
Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.
— Brendan Francis Brown
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
The secret to a long and healthy marriage is to work at it and don't try and change each other.
— Jack LaLanne
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
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
— Anne Taylor Fleming
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
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
My parents have a wonderful marriage, for many years. But I can't commit myself for such a long time.
— Kim Wilde
Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
He wanted to ask whether she were insane, but he had been married long enough to know the price of injudicious rhetorical questions.
— Diana Gabaldon
For me, marriage is about love, not paperwork. I've never been the kid who dreamed of the big white dress, the long veil, the fancy diamond ring.
— Crystal Bowersox
Marriage is a risk; I think it's a great and glorious risk, as long as you embark on the adventure in the same spirit.
— Cate Blanchett
Honor, riches, marriage-blessingLong continuance, and increasing,
Hourly joys be still upon you! — William Shakespeare
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
There is something revolting about the way girls' minds so often jump to marriage long before they jump to love.
— Dodie Smith
Admire and appreciate your man and he will be happy on your side
— Linda Alfiori
Were we women always destined to appear as we were not, as long as we were standing next to our husbands?
— Melanie Benjamin
Marriage is like a long conversation that always ends too soon.
— Cassandra Clare
It is said that marriage is a long war between ancient families trapped in close proximity by lust.
— Mark Helprin
A long marriage is very unifying, even if it's not ideal, and those old structures must be respected.
— Iris Murdoch
Philosophers have a long tradition of marrying stupid women, from Socrates on. They think it clever.
— Simon Gray
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
I promise to keep you happy, safe, and in love - for as long as my heart wakes; and as much as you soul takes.
— Prashant Chopra
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
Between people long-married there is a diplomacy of the eyes
— Gregory Benford
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
It is in vain to look for the elevation of woman so long as she is degraded in marriage.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I yearned for a long, happy marriage with one person.
— Ginger Rogers
Maybe we don't get a long past. Maybe we just get a future.
— Jacquelyn Mitchard
One thing you learn in a long marriage is how many sneezes to wait before saying, Bless you.
— Robert Breault
The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.
— Dolly Parton
Marriage is long enough to have plenty of room for time behind it.
— William Faulkner
Many short follies - that is called love by you. And your marriage putteth an end to many short follies, with one long stupidity.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
...I often thought of our marriage as one long conversation.
— Siri Hustvedt
I fear that this is what long term relationships are all about, at base: full-time role-playing, memorized and inhabited.
— Elisa Albert
I was always on guard and I was always prepared for him to be upset with me. I had lived feeling uneasy and tense for so long.
— Brenda Perlin
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
A happy wedlock is a long falling in love.
— Theodore Parker
Marriage marks the end of many short follies - being one long stupidity.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The key to a long and healthy marriage is that, honestly, there's nothing worth fighting about.
— Jay Leno
Was it happiness I'd found in my long marriage? Or capitulation? Or is that all happiness is, capitulation?
— Maria Semple
But marriage is one long sacrifice ... Chapter 21, Medora Manson speaking to Newland Archer — Edith Wharton
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
The long-term accommodation that protects marriage and other such relationships is ... forgetfulness.
— Alice Walker
Maybe he's been in Africa so long he has forgotten that we Christians have our own system of marriage, and it is called Monotony.
— Barbara Kingsolver
How long before we have, not just homosexual marriage, but homosexual unions between adult men and small boys?
— Randall Terry
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
My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.
— Olivia Williams
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
They sat a moment in embrace of silent mutual comfort, which was, she often thought, the reward of those long married.
— Helen Simonson
Marriage is a long-lasting friendship.
— Lailah Gifty Akita