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2. Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.

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3. Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

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4. To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you’re wrong, admit it; whenever you’re right, shut up. – Ogden Nash

5. Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he’ll fall asleep before you finish saying it.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Marriage is the operation by which a woman’s vanity and a man’s egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

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.

Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

- Helen Rowland

6. When you make a sacrifice in marriage, you’re sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

– Joseph Campbell

7. What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.

– Leo Tolstoy

8. When you have a baby, you set off an explosion in your marriage, and when the dust settles, your marriage is different from what it was. Not better, necessarily; not worse, necessarily; but different.

– Nora Ephron

9. A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

- André Maurois

10. The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It’s the ones that become the friendships that last.

- Andrew Sullivan

11. Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.

- Bertrand Russell

12. I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

- Rita Rudner

13. A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

In a husband there is only a man; in a married woman there is a man, a father, and mother, and a woman.

Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.

- Honore de Balzac

14. The problem of unmet expectations in marriage is primarily a problem of stereotyping. Each and every human being on this planet is a unique person. Since marriage is inevitably a relationship between two unique people, no one marriage is going to be exactly like any other. Yet we tend to wed with explicit visions of what a “good” marriage ought to be like. Then we suffer enormously from trying to force the relationship to fit the stereotype and from the neurotic guilt and anger we experience when we fail to pull it off.

- M. Scott Peck

15. In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love.

- William Penn

15. The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries; on the contrary, a good marriage is one in which each partner appoints the other to be the guardian of his solitude, and thus they show each other the greatest possible trust. A merging of two people is an impossibility, and where it seems to exist, it is a hemming-in, a mutual consent that robs one party or both parties of their fullest freedom and development. But once the realization is accepted that even between the closest people infinite distances exist, a marvelous living side-by-side can grow up for them, if they succeed in loving the expanse between them, which gives them the possibility of always seeing each other as a whole and before an immense sky.

A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude.

- Rainer Maria Rilke

15. The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they’re right if you love to be with them all the time.

We had a happy marriage because we were together all the time. We were friends as well as husband and wife. We just had a good time.

- Julia Child

16. By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

- Socrates

17. The marriage partner is not really the problem. No other person can ultimately make you happy. You must learn how to be happy within yourself.

- Joel Osteen

18. 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.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

19. Aim high, but do not aim so high that you totally miss the target. What really matters is that he will love you, that he will respect you, that he will honor you, that he will be absolutely true to you, that he will give you the freedom of expression and let you fly in the development of your own talents. He is not going to be perfect, but if he is kind and thoughtful, if he knows how to work and earn a living, if he is honest and full of faith, the chances are you will not go wrong, that you will be immensely happy.

The remedy for most marital stress is not in divorce. It is in repentance and forgiveness, in sincere expressions of charity and service. It is not in separation. It is in simple integrity that leads a man and a woman to square up their shoulders and meet their obligations. It is found in the Golden Rule, a time-honored principle that should first and foremost find expression in marriage.

There are four pillars to a happy marriage: respect one another as individuals; (give) soft answers; (practice)financial honesty; (conduct) family prayer.

How sweet is the assurance, how comforting is the peace that come from the knowledge that if we marry right and live right, our relationship will continue, notwithstanding the certainty of death and the passage of time. Men may write love songs and sing them. They may yearn and hope and dream. But all of this will be only a romantic longing unless there is an exercise of authority that transcends the powers of time and death.

Marriage in its truest sense, is a partnership of equals, with neither exercising dominion over the other, but, rather, with each encouraging and assisting the other in whatever responsibilities and aspirations he or she might have.

Marriage … is the union of two people of different sexes with a view to the mutual possession of each other’s sexual attributes for the duration of their lives.

- Gordon B. Hinckley

20. You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words.

- Elizabeth M. Gilbert