Quotes on Love and Marriage

Love gives us in a moment what we can hardly attain by effort after years of toil. Goethe

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

Never above you
Never below you
Always beside you
Walter Winchell

Success in marriage depends on being
able, when you get over being in love,
to really love…You never know anyone
until you marry them. Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary
life, love gives us a fairy tale. Anonymous

Grief can take care of itself, but To get the full
value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
Mark Twain

IF YOU LOVE
BE WORTHY OF LOVE
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Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet
my wife there. Andrew Jackson

The sum which two married people owe to one another
defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can
only be discharged through all eternity. Goethe

Love enables two people to grow into
their sense of “we”, but not at the
expense of their sense of “I”.
Dwight Small

Love is friendship set on fire. Jeremy Taylor

I love you for what you are, but I love you yet more for
what you are going to be. I love you not so much for your
realities as for your ideals. I pray for your desires that they
may be great, rather than for your satisfactions, which may
be so hazardously little. The most beautiful rose is one hardly
more than a bud wherein the pangs and ecstasies of desire are
working for a larger and finer growth. You are going forward
toward something great. I am on the way with you and therefore
I love you.
Carl Sandberg
Untitled, Selected Poems

Love is looking out in the same direction. It is linking our
strength to pull a common load. It is pushing together towards
the far horizons, hand in hand…Walter Rinder

Eternity is not a lot of time, it’s all time, or more precisely,
it’s right now, where all time lives. To live in this very moment
as if it were forever is not to stop the work of life but to begin
it afresh in celebration. Northrop Frye

This is the true measure of love, when we believe that we alone can love,
that no one could ever have loved before us, and that no one will ever love
in the same way after us. Goethe

All I know of love is that love is all there is. Emily Dickinson

There is only one happiness in life-to love and be loved.
George Sand

We are most alive when we are in love. John Updike

But I can assure you, Anne, that it’s a happy
life, when you’re married to the right man.
Anne’s House of Dreams by LM Montgomery

It is the man and woman united that make the complete
human being. Together they are most likely to succeed
in the world. Benjamin Franklin

When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life
with someone, you want the rest of your life to start as
soon as possible. Nora Ephron

A good marriage is at least eighty percent good luck in finding the right
person at the right time. The rest is trust. Nanette Newman

Love is not a decision your brain makes. It’s a feeling you know
Somewhere else, and your brain catches up. Meg Ryan

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible
to others. Francois Mauriac

Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is the celestial breathing
of the atmosphere of paradise. Victor Hugo

Alas, that my heart is a lute,
Whereon you have learned to play!
For many years it was mute,
Until one summer’s day.
You took it, and touched it,
And made it thrill.
And it thrills and throbs and quivers still!

Anne Lindsay

Eternal marriage is a daily decision, a daily act
of love. Kathy England

They found the meaning of life in each other’s eyes.
Author Unknown

Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made,
like bread, remade all the time, made new. Ursula K. LeGuin

Love is the subtlest force in the world. Mahatma Gandhi

The first duty of love is to listen. Paul Tillich

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
David Viscott

Love is the only gold. Alfred, Lord Tennyson

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. Plato

…And stand together yet not too near together: For the
pillars of the temple stand apart, and the oak tree and the
cypress grow not in each other’s shadow. Khalil Gibran

Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the
ride worthwhile. Franklin P. Jones

The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all
disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Harold Nicholson

The heart that loves is always young. Greek Proverb

Passion may be blind; but to say that love is, is a
libel and a lie. Nothing is more sharp-sighted or
sensitive than true love, in discerning, as by instinct,
the feelings of another. D. H. Davis

A good marriage doesn’t happen when the “perfect couple”
comes together. It happens when an imperfect couple learns
to enjoy their differences. Author Unknown