Whether your wedding is coming up, or you’re celebrating your 40th year together, here are some oh so romantic quotes.
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A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.Ruth Bell Graham
Love and marriage, love and marriage, go together like a horse and carriage. This I tell ya, brother, you can’t have one without the other.Frank Sinatra
You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.Nicholas Sparks
A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.Jane Austen
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.Mignon McLaughlin
We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness.Ellen Goodman
What greater thing is there for two human souls that to feel that they are joined… to strengthen each other… to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.George Eliot
Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.Nicole Krauss
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.Friedrich Nietzsche
The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.Gabriel García Márquez
You’re the only thing I know like the back of my hand.Unknown
To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.Anna Louise Strong
Love is often the fruit of marriage.Moliere
I love being married. It’s so great to find one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.Rita Rudner
Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else.Nicholas Sparks
To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you’re wrong, admit it; Whenever you’re right, shut up.Ogden Nash
Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage.Ambrose Bierce
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.George Eliot
No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater…The love we have for each other is bigger than these small differences. And that’s the key. It’s like a big pie chart, and the love in a relationship has to be the biggest piece. Love can make up for a lot.Sarah Dessen
One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.Judith Viorst
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.Sam Keen
A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he’s finished.Zsa Zsa Gabor
Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.Ursula K. Le Guin
Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.Benjamin Franklin
Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.C.S. Lewis
To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow – this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.Elizabeth Gilbert
In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.Erich Fromm
You are the answer to every prayer I’ve offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don’t know how I could have lived without you for as long as I have.Nicholas Sparks
When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.Elizabeth Bowen
Love means to commit yourself without guarantee.Anne Campbell
Right now we are here, and nothing can mar our perfection, or steal the joy of this perfect moment.Audrey Niffenegger
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.Michel de Montaigne
It is possible to be in love with you just because of who you are.Maggie Stiefvater
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.Ellen Key
You know it’s never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It’s always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.Jodi Picoult, Mercy
Getting divorced just because you don’t love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.Zsa Zsa Gabor
Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone’s bad qualities because they somehow complete you.Sarah Dessen
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.Peter Ustinov
The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being.Tom Robbins
Each moment of a happy lover’s hour is worth an age of dull and common life.Aphra Behn
Being with you never felt wrong. It’s the one thing I did right. You’re the one thing I did right.Becca Fitzpatrick
Sometimes it’s hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man.Tammy Wynette
