Anniversary quotations

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◆ The heart of marriage is memories; and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns, then your marriage is a gift from the gods.

- Bill Cosby99

◆ Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.

- Simone Signoret99

◆ We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

- W. Somerset Maugham99

◆ There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

- Martin Luther99

◆ Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.

- Pope John Paul II99

◆ I love being my husband's wife.

- Julianna Margulies99

◆ Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.

- Zane Grey99

◆ After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.

- Mel Gibson99

◆ I think long-lasting, healthy relationships are more important than the idea of marriage. At the root of every successful marriage is a strong partnership.

- Carson Daly99

◆ Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

- George Bernard Shaw99

◆ We invest less in our friendships and expect more of friends than any other relationship. We spend days working out where to book for a romantic dinner, weeks wondering how to celebrate a partner or parent's birthday, and seconds forgetting a friend's important anniversary.

- Mariella Frostrup99

◆ You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate.

- Pope John Paul II99

◆ Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soul mate.

- Barbara Hershey99

◆ Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose.

- Mitt Romney99

◆ I've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she'll kill me.

- Henny Youngman99