John & Kim
Married​
05/02/20

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche

A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
~Anne Lamott

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
~Michel de Montaigne

Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.
~Franz Schubert

Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be.
~William Wordsworth

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Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that one friend in an indifferent world.
~Erica Jong

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I dreamed of a wedding of elaborate elegance,
A church filled with family and friends.
I asked him what kind of a wedding he wished for,
He said one that would make me his wife.
~Author Unknown

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A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers.
~African Proverb

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Walking. I am listening to a deeper way. Suddenly all my ancestors are behind me. Be still, they say. Watch and listen. You are the result of the love of thousands.
~Linda Hogan

Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.
~Mitch Albom

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In the best of relationships you have two people who cannot think of anything that was not part of the deal. 
~Robert Brault

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

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A fellow ought to save a few of the long evenings he spends with his girl till after they're married. 
~Kin Hubbard

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My heart to you is given,
Oh, do give yours to me;
We'll lock them up together,
And throw away the key.
~Frederick Saunders

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Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.
~Mark Twain

Our wedding was many years ago. The celebration continues to this day.
~Gene Perret

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A dress that zips up the back will bring a husband and wife together. 
~James H Boren

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If two stand shoulder to shoulder against the gods,
Happy together, the gods themselves are helpless
Against them while they stand so.
~Maxwell Anderson

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Oh, the comfort -- the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person -- having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away. 
~Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship. 
~Iris Murdoch

After the chills and fever of love, how nice is the 98.6º of marriage! 
~Mignon McLaughlin

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One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.
~Judith Viorst

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

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

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

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Being with you never felt wrong. It’s the one thing I did right. You’re the one thing I did right.
~Becca Fitzpatrick

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Marriage, n. A community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all two. 
~Ambrose Bierce

A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time. 
~Anne Taylor Fleming

In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
~Erich Fromm

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
~Mignon McLaughlin

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What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
~Nathaniel Hawthorne

The older I get, the less time I want to spend with the part of the human race that didn't marry me. 
~Robert Brault

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To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow – this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.
~Elizabeth Gilbert

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.
~Goethe

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There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day knowing someone on the other side of that door is waiting for the sound of his footsteps.
~Ronald Reagan

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

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Marriage: If you want something to last forever, you treat it differently. You shield it and protect it. You never abuse it. You don't expose it to the elements. You don't make it common or ordinary. If it ever becomes tarnished, you lovingly polish it until it gleams like new. It becomes special because you have made it so, and it grows more beautiful and precious as time goes by.
~F Burton Howard

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I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you
~Roy Croft

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In love there are two things - bodies and words.
~Joyce Carol Oates

The first duty of love is to listen.
~Paul Tillich

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

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Men never know how tired they are till their wives sit them down for a nice long talk. 
~Mignon McLaughlin

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.
~Oscar Wilde

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There is such pleasure in long-term marriage that I really would hate to be my age and not have had a long-term marriage. Remember, sustaining a pleasurable, long-term marriage takes effort, deliberateness and an intention to learn about one another. In other words, marriage is for grown-ups.
~Cokie Roberts

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.
~Joseph Barth

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I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.
~Pablo Neruda

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In the early years, you fight because you don't understand each other. In the later years, you fight because you do. 
~Joan Didion

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility. 
~George Levinger

It is sometimes essential for a husband and a wife to quarrel - they get to know each other better.
~Goethe

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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing
~Goethe

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Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
~Laozi

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A good marriage is a contest of generosity.
~Diane Sawyer

A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude
~Rainer Maria Rilke

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You have to treat your wife like you treated her when you first met her and were trying to get her in bed. 
~Alice Cooper

As for his secret to staying married: "My wife tells me that if I ever decide to leave, she is coming with me."
~Jon Bon Jovi

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A good husband makes a good wife.
~John Florio

When a wife has a good husband, it is easily seen on her face.
~Goethe

It's true what they say - all the good men are married. But it's marriage that makes them good.
~Gay Talese

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Never go in a place that you wouldn't take your wife.
~David Gene Gibbs

There's nothing like a good cheating song to make me want to run home to be with my wife.
~Steven Curtis Chapman

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

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Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.
~Nicholas Sparks

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grow old with me. the best is yet to be. the last of life for which the first was made.
~Robert Browning

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Love like there's no tomorrow, and if tomorrow comes, love again.
~Max Lucado

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Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
~Emily Bronte

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A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors. 
~Benjamin Franklin

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.
~Sydney Smith

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Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.
~Joanne Woodward

I once read that in any good marriage, one partner is the gardener and the other is the garden. We take it in turns to be either.
~Meryl Streep

People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.
~Paul Newman

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Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps.
~Joe Murray

Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
~Gloria Steinem

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
~Homer

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For you see, each day I love you more. Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
~Rosemonde Gerard

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

A career is a wonderful thing, but you can't snuggle up to it at night.
~Marilyn Monroe

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As much as I would miss my wife if she were to die, I would miss what we are together even more. Our "we-ness," our "us-ness."
~Carl Whitaker

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My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.
~Oprah Winfrey

In the end there doesn't have to be anyone who understands you. There just has to be someone who wants to. 
~Robert Brault



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