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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

Should I tell her of the moments of joy, the intense pleasure of holding the hand of the one you love and wishing that time would stand still? — Kelly Long

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

I believe in tying the marriage knot, as long as it's around the woman's neck — W.C. Fields

Some Englishman once said marriage is a long dull meak with 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

We believe that Jesus has made His home in our hearts, and as long as we carry Him there, God's love will keep our love strong no matter where we are. — Nick Vujicic

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

[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's
to keep unmarried as long as he can. — George Bernard Shaw

Marriage is success as long as you are married to a person you truly love; otherwise, it is merely convenience and a waste of two people's time. — Ben Tolosa

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

If you want true love and a long-lasting marriage, you need to start by figuring out what makes you happy. — Amy Webb

Dating is about grand romantic gestures that mean little over the long term. Marriage is about small acts of kindness that bond you over a lifetime. — Lori Gottlieb

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

Does marriage have such a revolutionary power that a long-established habit can be overthrown in such a short time? — Yiyun Li

Marriage is a long-term commitment. You should only step into that commitment if you truly love the person and want to spend your life with her. — Nick Vujicic

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-blessing
Long 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

Why long for death's marriage bed
which human beings all shun?
Death comes soon enough
and brings and end to everything. — Euripides

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

It was not a healthy marriage for long time. It was never about another man, it was about what my and Dennis's relationship could not sustain. — Meg Ryan

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

No measure of time with you will be long enough, but we'll start with forever. — Stephenie Meyer

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

Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long. — Amy Grant

As long as he lived, it would always be a pleasure and a gift to fill his hands with the weight of her flesh. — Yaa Gyasi

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

Congratulations on your marriage--may it be long and fun and frisky--and may you always look at one another the way you do today. — Emma Chase

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

A long association-prolonged human contact, when a man and woman live together-this ends up producing a sort of rot, a poison. — Ugo Betti

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

She was forced to face how cold and unlike her fantasy her own marriage was? Or did she suddenly just get tired of living this long-ass life? Joella — Dennis Lehane

Was it happiness I'd found in my long marriage? Or capitulation? Or is that all happiness is, capitulation? — Maria Semple

Romances and marriages are usually over long before they are over. — Mimi Sheraton

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

A sense of humor is great - it goes a long, long way in a marriage. — Chris Rock

Marriage is a decades-long experiment, conducted mostly in private; a test of will in the face of unexpected obstacles. — Jojo Moyes

The long-term accommodation that protects marriage and other such relationships is ... forgetfulness. — Alice Walker

Long-term relationships are an everyday choice. It's harder to be in a marriage than it is to bounce from one relationship to the next. — Pink

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

I think even in a good marriage, especially if you stay together long enough, there are going to be events that happen. — Tori Amos

Ay, marriage is the life-long miracle, The self-begetting wonder, daily fresh. — Charles Kingsley

Applaud to those who withstand the shards of compromise. May laurel leaves sit on your head, and life-long pride be yours for the taking. — Popo Santos

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

Marriage is a long conversation, someone once said, and maybe so is a rock band's life. A few minutes later, both were done. — Kim Gordon

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short. — Andre Maurois

My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one. — Olivia Williams

Marriage is a long, dull meal with dessert served at the beginning. — Oscar Wilde

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