Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

anniversary

The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.

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

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

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.

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.

Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.

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

Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom wait until they have been married longer.

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

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.