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A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love. – Pearl Buck
A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences. – Dave Meurer
Attempted good marriage with premeditation. – Charles de LEUSSE
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years. – Robert Oxton Bolt
Even holligans marry, though they know that marriage is but for a little while. It is alimony that is forever. – Quentin Crisp
Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards. – Benjamin Franklin
Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed. – Hoshang N. Akhtar
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames. – Sir Thomas More
Sex is only 10% of a Good Marriage but it's 90% of a Bad One. – Tom Zegan
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. – Mignon McLaughlin
That is what marriage really means helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life. – Paul Tournier
Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up. – B. A. Billingsly
A good marriage winds up as a meeting of minds, which had better be pretty good to start with. – Author Unknown
A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores. – Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day. – Andre Maurois
Accident counts for much in companionship, as in marriage. – Henry Adams
All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership. – Ann Landers
Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage. – Sydney Harris
Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you. – Helen Rowland
Being able to support oneself allows one to choose a marriage out of love and not just economic dependence. It also allows one to risk that marriage. – Gloria Steinem
Choose in marriage only a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man. – Jeseph Joubert
Consider, and you will find that almost all the transactions of the time of Vespasian differed little from those of the present day. You there find marrying and giving in marriage, educating children, sickness, death, war, joyous holidays, traffic, agriculture, flatterers, insolent pride, suspicions, laying of plots, longing for the death of others, newsmongers, lovers, misers, men canvassing for consulship?yet all these passed away, and are nowhere. – M Aurelius
Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others – William Hazlitt
For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe... Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end. – H.L. Mencken
For the first year of marriage I had basically a bad attitude. I tended to place my wife underneath a pedestal – Woody Allen

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