Quotes About Couples Together

#1. Some scientists hypothesize that having children is the only reason romantic love came about. It kept couples together long enough to mate and see a baby through infancy.

Daria Snadowsky

#2. All my adult life I've felt drawn to ask long-married couples how they were able to stay together. All of them said the same thing: We worked hard at it.

Randy Pausch

#3. ...half the pleasures of life [are] derived from the little struggles and small privations that one had to endure at the beginning of one's married life. Such struggles [are] generally occasioned by want of means, and often helped to make loving couples stand together all the firmer.

George Grossmith

#4. The solution, she elaborates, is for couples to do novel and exciting things together (to release dopamine and get the romance rush),

Neil Strauss

#5. Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points.

Diane Ackerman

#6. When you consider the many pressures that couples face today, only an iron-clad determination will hold them together for a lifetime. Those who go into marriage with a mushy commitment are likely to wobble and fall apart when the hard times come. And as we all know, hard times will come.

James C. Dobson

#7. Ideally, couples need three lives; one for him, one for her, and one for them together.

Jacqueline Bisset

#8. Why be alone when we can be together baby
You can make my life worthwhile
And I can make you start to smile

Mr. Big

#9. All the couples therapy and communication seminars in the world won't save you if you aren't prepared to close your eyes and hug the mainmast through a storm.

Ada Calhoun

#10. Why are the only happy endings the ones where the couples get together?" I ask. "Can't they just be friends? Can't that be a happy ending too?

Ted Michael

#11. I hate couples sitting together for hours and waiting for each other to kiss.

M.F. Moonzajer

#12. A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

#13. I knew why love was always described with eternity. A single minute stretched out for lifetimes.

Shannon A. Thompson

#14. When a couple announces they are getting married, far too often the first response is "let me see the ring." Really? Your first concern after two people have decided to spend the rest of their lives together as husband and wife is how fancy the ring is?

Carlos Wallace

#15. A couple in love is like a pair of scissors. Two useless pieces of metal, until they are inextricably connected at the core so that they can move together as one and accomplish great things.

Jack Canfield

#16. Watching them, she realized they made so much sense together. Every look, every touch, was a reassurance, almost electric, as if they were shocking each other with every contact.

Sarah Addison Allen

#17. What did couples talk about after so many years together?

Jay Bell

#18. The percentage of couples who stay together after high school is, like, less than five percent, you guys.

Simone Elkeles

#19. Some couples could not work together but we enjoy working on our projects and building our art business.

Dwayne Hickman

#20. I bet a lot of couples have wondered, if they'd met under different circumstances, perhaps they would've taken a different path and never ended up together. And in a way, you got that opportunity. You chose me twice. If that's not meant to be, then I don't know what is.

Jenn Bennett

#21. Our eyelashes brushed like they would weave together by themselves, turning us into one wild thing. I say, I think I missed you before I met you even.

Francesca Lia Block

#22. Married couples who work together to build and maintain a business assume broad responsibilities. Not only is their work important to our local and national economies, but their success is central to the well-being of their families.

Melissa Bean

#23. I'm convinced there are a lot of couples who have got together while listening to my music. My songs are not exactly unsexy.

Kylie Minogue

#24. As I'm beginning to find out, parenting is no child's play, it could
Sometimes determine whether couples continue to live together or
go their separate ways.

Oche Otorkpa

#25. I'm thinking of doing a marital comedy for one of the studios, but I want it to be so painful that it'll have a profound effect on married couples who see it together.

Harold Ramis

#26. Couples are really funny, because if they are together, they can fight and do fun things together. In Jane Austen books, marriage is the end of the story, but I actually think a really funny couple could be a fun thing to watch.

Mindy Kaling

#27. Sweetheart, this is not a race to the finish line. It's you and me, spending time together and getting to know each other better. Just that simple.

Brey King

#28. Couples who play together, stay together.

Kris Garden

#29. Unfortunately, there's no test of compatibility to see how couples will survive together, despite what they say on those online dating sites. There's always a risk you take when you agree to spend the rest of your life with someone.

Jaci Burton

#30. I look at couples in the street who are in their sixties and have been together for 40 years, and they're my idols. That's Ice and me for sure.

Coco Austin

#31. It's important to have your own space. I've never trusted people who do everything together. I call them "Kool-Aid Couples," because it's like they drank the same Kool-Aid and it's drugged them into constantly gazing into each other's eyes.

Denis Leary

#32. Why is it that the right people never wind up together? Why are people so afraid to leave a relationship, even if they know it's a bad one?

Stephanie Perkins

#33. I can't tell you how many couples I know where the husband and the wife are both in the military and have deployed together, and they've got kids, and so I think times have changed and gender roles have blurred when it comes to the military.

Tanya Biank

#34. Some couples buy pots and pans when they move in together. Ulay and I began planning how to make art together.

Marina Abramovic

#35. It's kind of sad that couples don't want to work together, it's like, 'Wow, you really don't like the person you're with?' I'd rather kiss her then some random person I just met

Matt Prokop

#36. We had twenty eight days together but it feels like a lifetime. She's right, without her it feels like I'm being strangled and fighting for air. I can't just sit here day after day wishing I could at least see her face. -Colin

K. Lars

#37. There was a weird intimacy, sitting in a car together. Couples sat in cars. Cops and their partners. Strangers became unstrange, sharing a windshield view of the world.

Jerry Stahl

#38. When couples come together, it's for big reasons. Sometimes more than they believe. And the person who is right for you is exactly the one that makes you become who heaven intended you to be.

Pamela Morsi

#39. Couples who have been together for a long time say the key to staying together is to work as a team toward the greater good, tolerating some tough (even tragic) times to grow together and work toward a mature kind of union.

Amy Dickinson

#40. Now he looked at couples - in restaurants, on the street, at parties - and wondered: Why are you together? What did you identify as essential to you? What's missing in you that you want someone else to provide?

Hanya Yanagihara

#41. I felt tears prick my eyes as I looked down at the model again, looking at that girl and boy on the curb. Forever in that place, together.

Sarah Dessen

#42. This is what we had become, after the first symbiotic year of our living together: a couple who needed another couple to be around.

Emily Perkins

#43. When woman work outside the home and share breadwinning duties, couples are more likely to stay together. In fact, the risk of divorce reduces by about half when a wife earns half the income and a husband does half the housework.

Sheryl Sandberg

#44. To believe that one, or even three, mates can supply all the things one needs from one's friends is as stupid as believing married couples must do everything together.

Julie Burchill

#45. It's assumed we'll be giving a present together
that's what couples are supposed to do. After a while, you become part of a proper noun. We're Daniel-and-Mandy.

David Levithan

#46. That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle that the Vatican has overlooked.

Bill Cosby

#47. To suffer together is to suffer
with beauty,

Kelli Russell Agodon

#48. We had more fun waiting in line together at the Department of Motor Vehicles than most couples have on their honeymoons. We gave each other same nickname, so there would be no separation between us. We made goals, vows, promises and dinner together. He read books to me ...

Elizabeth Gilbert

#49. I think straight couples have a schedule: You're together for two years and then there's the 'where is this going?' question, which wouldn't necessarily be good for everyone, but I think it's pretty healthy for relationships, for there to be a presumption that there is a decision to be made.

Nick Denton

#50. My wife and I just started listening to the late Beethoven Quartets together, an activity I recommend for all married couples, but that doesn't really mean that I'm finished reading.

Clive James

#51. Shut up and listen. Research shows that people who interrupt are three times more likely to die of a heart attack than those who don't and that marital relationships usually fail because of too much communication, not too little. Couples who spend a lot of time being quiet together stay together.

Paul Pearsall

#52. Occasionally, she wondered if all couples struggled so much to understand one another, spoke so little at dinner together, spent so much time camped out in front of the TV. Did all women sometimes feel distanced from their man while they were making love?

Galt Niederhoffer

#53. Marriage doesn't put an end to one's ability to serve God and bring him glory. In fact, I've seen many married couples who have done more for God together than was possible as individuals.

Jody Hedlund

#54. I've rarely met couples who - they both love to do everything together.

Paul Mazursky

#55. I contend the state ought to do its thing and provide legal rights for all couples who want to be joined together for life. The church should bless unions that it sees fit to bless, and they should be called marriages.

Tony Campolo

#56. I've been close to two or three couples, gay and straight, who have been together for 45 years.

Ira Sachs

#57. Research shows that couples who have a lot of similarities, including intellectual compatibility, end up staying together.

Helen Fisher

#58. If married couples did not live together, happy marriages would be more frequent.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#59. This is the moment too many couples struggle in vain to avoid or ignore - even to the point of choosing bitter divorce and fractured family over the daunting task of confronting the sky together, with all the "confident girders" behind them in the past.

Christopher Ryan

#60. I just filmed a movie with my boyfriend, an indie film called 'Conception.' And it's kind of like an R-rated version of 'Valentine's Day.' So it's like all about eight couples, and me and my boyfriend play one of them together. And that was a lot of fun.

Sarah Hyland

#61. Couples counseling gets many couples back together. But not all, and not always. For your own sake and that of your children, however, I recommend it - I almost insist on it - as the first step for anyone unhappy in a relationship.

Laura Wasser