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Marriage is love personified. - Phoenix Flame

Marriage is the perfection of what love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought. - Emerson

When you make a sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship. - Joseph Campbell

When you meet someone who can cook and do housework--don't hesitate a minute--marry him. - Unknown

Marriage--a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters written in prose. - Beverly Nichols

Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words. - Plautus

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul. - Honore de Balzac

Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one. - Joseph Campbell

Marriage is a partnership in which each inspire the other, and brings fruition to both of you. - Millicent Carey McIntosh

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

Married couples who love each other tell each other a thousand things without talking. - Chinese Proverb

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

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.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company that a good marriage. - Martin Luther

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

Two souls with but a single thought,
Two heart that beat as one.
Franz Joseph von Munch-Bellinghausen

They gave each other a smile with a future in it. - Ring Lardner

Treasure each other in the recognition that we do not know how long we shall have each other. - Joshua Liebman