Marriage proverbs

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◆ Someone told me the delightful story of the crusader who put a chastity belt on his wife and gave the key to his best friend for safekeeping, in case of his death. He had ridden only a few miles away when his friend, riding hard, caught up with him, saying 'You gave me the wrong key!

- Ana?s Nin99

◆ Here's something else to think about: calling when you say you're going to is the very first brick in the house you are building of love and trust. If he can't lay this one stupid brick down, you ain't never gonna have a house baby, and it's cold outside.

- Greg Behrendt99

◆ Longed for him. Got him. Shit.

- Margaret Atwood99

◆ Let's start with this statistic: You are delicious. Be brave, my sweet. I know you can get lonely. I know you can crave companionship and sex and love so badly that it physically hurts. But I truly believe that the only way you can find out that there's something better out there is to first believe there's something better out there. What other choice is there?

- Greg Behrendt99

◆ When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

- George Bernard Shaw99

◆ A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

- Mignon McLaughlin99

◆ 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.

- Socrates99

◆ My husband and I are best of friends first and foremost. We fight like cats and dogs, but never stay mad for long. I was lucky to find him, he is in every way, my soulmate.

- Carnie Wilson99

◆ 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.

- Friedrich Nietzsche99

◆ The secret to a happy marriage is if you can be at peace with someone within four walls, if you are content because the one you love is near to you, either upstairs or downstairs, or in the same room, and you feel that warmth that you don't find very often, then that is what love is all about.

- Bruce Forsyth99

◆ Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

- Martin Luther99

◆ My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

- Winston Churchill99

◆ Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without.

- James Dobson99

◆ To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.

- Ogden Nash99

◆ All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.

- Ann Landers99