Quotes About Lasting Marriage

#1. If you want true love and a long-lasting marriage, you need to start by figuring out what makes you happy.

Amy Webb

#2. A lasting marriage, they say, is one where the two reach for different sections of the Sunday paper. Me, I go right for the obituaries, just like those very elderly characters in Muriel Spark's spooky novel, 'Memento Mori.'

Billy Collins

#3. know what relationship you're getting with Mourinho: a full-on, passionate, whirlwind affair with some unforgettable nights but absolutely no chance of a lasting marriage. One caveat though: Mourinho's always wanted this job.

Andy Mitten

#4. Over time, any deception destroys intimacy, and without intimacy couples cannot have true and lasting love.

Bonnie Eaker Weil

#5. Marriage isn't about Winning - It's about Lasting

Mark Gorman

#6. If a man has to wait before he sleeps with a woman, he'll not only perceive her as more beautiful, he'll also take time to appreciate who she is.

Sherry Argov

#7. It is in the very nature of conjugal love to be definitive. The lasting union expressed by the marriage vows is more than a formality or a traditional formula; it is rooted in the natural inclinations of the human person. For believers, it is also a covenant before God that calls for fidelity.

Pope Francis

#8. If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance; but since nature has so decreed that we cannot manage comfortably with them, nor live in any way without them, we must plan for our lasting preservation rather than for our temporary pleasure.

Augustus

#9. Two things are owed to truthfulness: lasting marriages and short friendships.

Robert Breault

#10. The Glory of this life is in viewing it as eternal.

Beth Johnson

#11. Conflicting egos destroy many relationships. Lasting, stable marriages are a true treasure because they demand that both parties adjust to the constant cellular flux of their partner as they metaphase through changing seasons of life.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#12. I know that the odds are against a marriage lasting 60 years.

Darrell Royal

#13. I generally don't become overexcited about things anyway, I'm just not one of those people. I'm not easily surprised by things either. I think it's because I expect that anything can happen

Cecelia Ahern

#14. I'm a good role model. I have an amazing marriage, and it will be long lasting. I think I'm a good mom. I could run for office, no problem, because there are no skeletons in my closet.

Elizabeth Banks

#15. Human beings are hard-wired to make relationships. We do so in many capacities, fleeting and long-lasting, between different sexes, both inside and outside of the confines of the almost universally accepted partnership we called marriage.

Louisa Leontiades

#16. Live is not about constantly fighting to keep someone in your life. It is about constantly fighting for a better life together.

Shannon L. Alder

#17. YOU HAVE THE POWER TO KEEP THE LOVE ALIVE BUT TAKING IN CONSIDERATION WHAT IT IS IMPORTANT FOR YOUR MAN

Linda Alfiori

#18. I am not a foodie, thank goodness. I will eat pretty much anything. A lot of my friends are getting incredibly fussy about food and I see it as a bit of an affliction.

Alain De Botton

#19. Seen from the point of view of the particular group interests of the bureaucrats, every measure that makes the government's payroll swell is progress.

Ludwig Von Mises

#20. Having a yacht is a reason for being more cheerful than most.

Kurt Vonnegut

#21. As many as half of Ethiopia's girls become wives before becoming adults. But Ethiopia is also a place where lasting solutions to child marriage are starting to make a difference.

Helene D. Gayle

#22. Lust fades, so you'd better be with someone who can stand you.

Alan Zweibel

#23. When two people achieve lasting happiness, this is not solely because they are great lovers but because they are also - I must put it crudely - good people; controlled, loyal, fair-minded, mutually adaptable people.

C.S. Lewis

#24. Marriage is a long-lasting friendship.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#25. Whenever I write for hotel reservations, I always enclose a set of rules I have made for the hotels.

Ethel Waters

#26. I never believed marriage was a lasting institution. I thought that to be married for five years was to be married forever.

Lauren Bacall

#27. Don't remain dreamless, don't let all you live for be marriage and having kids, as nice and beautiful as these are, you may not get deep and lasting satisfaction from them.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#28. I think long-lasting, healthy relationships are more important than the idea of marriage. At the root of every successful marriage is a strong partnership.

Carson Daly

#29. Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

Marilyn Monroe

#30. If women are differentiated only by superficial physical attributes, men appear more individual and irreplaceable than they really are.

Shulamith Firestone

#31. I have a thing for things that last.

Criss Jami

#32. The happy State of Matrimony is, undoubtedly, the surest and most lasting Foundation of Comfort and Love ... the Cause of all good Order in the World, and what alone preserves it from the utmost Confusion.

Benjamin Franklin

#33. Sleeping in the same bed with someone to whom you can admit your failings is a lasting comfort indeed. This is not about "mea culpa" as surrender, it is about "mea culpa" as mortar in binding together the uneven bricks of a human foundation.

Michael Perry

#34. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Jeremy Collier

#35. The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.

Lord Chesterfield

#36. It's not books you need, it's some of the things that once were in books.

Ray Bradbury

#37. Admire and appreciate your man and he will be happy on your side

Linda Alfiori