We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

When a girl marries she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

Our anniversary is a reminder that we are blessed enough to have found our soul mate, and that life has become so much sweeter since the day we became husband and wife. Thank you for always being there to support me, to love me, to complete me.

A man’s wife has more power over him than the state has.

We were given: Two hands to hold. Two legs to walk. Two eyes to see. Two ears to listen. But why only one heart? Because the other was given to someone else. For us to find.

A life without love is like a year without summer.

A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.

A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.

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

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

I don’t pretend to know what love is for everyone, but I can tell you what it is for me; love is knowing all about someone, and still wanting to be with them more than any other person, love is trusting them enough to tell them everything about yourself, including the things you might be ashamed of, love is feeling comfortable and safe with someone, but still getting weak knees when they walk into a room and smile at you.

I wouldn’t change a thing
as happiness you bring.
You are my soul mate.
A marriage made by fate.

If I know what love is, it is because of you.

Life’s greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

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

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

Spouse: someone who’ll stand by you through all the trouble you wouldn’t have had if you’d stayed single.

Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.

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

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.

Our anniversary is a time to look back at the good times and a time to look ahead to live our dreams together.

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

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

The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one’s relationship has a growing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing; it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of divine accident, and the most wonderful of all things in life.

The secret to having a good marriage is to understand that marriage must be total, it must be permanent and it must be equal.

There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love.

We are a work in progress with a lifetime contract.

You don’t marry someone you can live with – you marry the person who you cannot live without.

An anniversary is a time to celebrate the joys of today, the memories of yesterday, and the hopes of tomorrow.

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.

Love one another and you will be happy. It’s as simple and as difficult as that.

The highest happiness on earth is marriage.

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

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

There is no such cozy combination as man and wife.

The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through eternity.

When the one man loves the one woman and the one woman loves the one man, the very angels desert heaven and come and sit in that house and sing for joy.

Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Love is the greatest refreshment in life.

Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots.

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.

The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more; that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds …. That’s what you’ve given me and that’s what I hope to give to you forever.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

You can’t stop loving or wanting to love because when its right, it’s the best thing in the world. When you’re in a relationship and it’s good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.

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

Newlyweds become oldyweds, and oldyweds are the reasons that families work.

The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms of love gather you together.

Are we not like two volumes of one book?

Twenty-five years of happiness known.
A very long time, yet so quickly it’s flown!
It’s nice to remember the good times we’ve had,
and leave in the past any things that were bad.

To keep the fire burning brightly there’s one easy rule: Keep the two logs together, near enough to keep each other warm and far enough apart — about a finger’s breadth — for breathing room. Good fire, good marriage, same rule.

Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever.

Love is not singular except in syllable.

I prefer, where love’s concerned, nonspecific anniversaries
that can be celebrated every day.

Life is a journey, and love is what makes that journey worthwhile.

In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours.
In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.

Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one.

A happy marriage is a long conversation that always seems too short.

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.

So swiftly have the years sped by
Since our hearts were young and gay,
That it is hard to realize,
Even though our hair is gray,
That it was fifty years ago
When we took that sacred vow
To cherish and love each other;
And we have from then till now!

Happiness and pain and sorrow
Were our portions through the years
That we two have lived together;
But love helped to dry all tears.
And my heart gives me this message,
Knowing all that I know now,
If the clock could be turned backward,
I’d still take that holy vow!

True love stories never have endings.

Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold.

We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love — true love.

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

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Marriage, n: The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.

A great marriage is not when the perfect couple come together.it is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate.

The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they’re right if you love to be with them all the time.

The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.

Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endureth his torments willingly.

Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.

Always strive to give your spouse the very best of yourself; not what’s left over after you have given your best to everyone else.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

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

Forever is a long time, but I wouldn’t mind spending it by your side.

Every love story is beautiful but ours is my favorite.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

Here’s my love, take it. Here’s my soul, use it. Here’s my heart, don’t break it. Here’s my hand, hold it and together we will make it forever.

Words simply cannot tell how much I love you. There aren’t enough words in the world to express my feelings for you, so I will just say: I love you.

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

I think you have to be willing to take a bullet for somebody if you’re going to stand up there, take your vows, and be married to them for the rest of your life.

Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.

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

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

Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soul mate.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family – a domestic church.

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.

May you live all the days of your life.

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

Next month, I will celebrate my 30th anniversary of marriage with my beautiful bride, Vicki. Our marriage has been a blessing. I have gained even more respect for the institution over the past 3 decades and will defend it against attack.

You were made perfectly to be loved – and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.

Marriage is not a noun; it’s a verb. It isn’t something you get. It’s something you do. It’s the way you love your partner every day.

A long-lasting marriage is built by two people who believe in and live by the solemn promise they made.

Through time your bond is strong; it lasts through sun and storm; you’ll always have your love to keep each other warm.

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll be happy. If you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

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

If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?

Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.

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

Then there was a man who said, ‘I never knew what real happiness was until I got married; by then it was too late.’

My wife and I were happy for 20 years – then we met.

The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

A good wife always forgives her husband when she’s wrong.

All marriages are happy. It’s the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.

Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity.

A wedding is just like a funeral except that you get to smell your own flowers.

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn’t, they’d be married too.

Adam and Eve had an ideal marriage. He didn’t have to hear about all the men she could have married, and she didn’t have to hear about the way his mother cooked.

By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Marriage is the chief cause of divorce.

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.

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

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

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.

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

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.

Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!

You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate.

We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary.

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

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.

The secret to having a good marriage is to understand that marriage must
be total, it must be permanent, and it must be equal.

Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.

He’s the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.

After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they just can’t face each other, but still they stay together.

The surest way to be alone is to get married.

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.

The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.

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

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habits and then complain that he’s not the man she married?

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

Each moment of a happy lover’s hour is worth an age of dull and common life.

The art of love… is largely the art of persistence.

The heart of marriage is memories; and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns, then your marriage is a gift from the gods.

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.

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

I will spend an eternity loving you, caring for you, respecting you, showing you every day that I hold you as high as the stars.

Every year that I’m with you Has been better than before; It’s hard for me to even think How I could love you more.
Every year you’ve graced my life Has been full of happiness; I love your caring face, your voice, Your tender, sweet caress.
Every year when this day comes, I’m filled with love and pleasure; Happy Anniversary, Love, My joy, my delight, my treasure.

Love is just a word until someone comes along and brings the word life. You’ve shown me the true meaning of love, and what love is all about. You’re my one true love. Thank you for everything and Happy Anniversary, my love.

On this special day, I just want to let you know I’ve had such an amazing time annoying you over the year and I can’t wait to annoy you even more in the future. Thanks for sticking around babe! Happy Anniversary.

Everyday I discover that I love you even more, and in this infinite universe I will love you till the ends.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.

You have touched a part of my heart that no one else has ever been able to get to. I will love you forever.

I love you for all that you are all that you have been and all that you are yet to be.

Grow old with me, the best is yet to be.

I want you for always … days, years, eternities.

I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was the second or third or fourth. But I remember the first moment I looked at you walking toward me and realized that somehow the rest of the world seemed to vanish when I was with you.

If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving one be me.

I wish there was a word more than ‘love’ itself to convey what I feel for you.

Whatever our souls are made of, [yours] and mine are the same.

As we grow older together, As we continue to change with age, There is one thing that will never change … I will always keep falling in love with you.

Meeting you was fate, becoming your friend was a choice, but falling in love with you I had no control over.

I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.

There is no mystery — that’s the beauty of it. We are entirely explicable to each other, and yet we stay. What a miracle that is.

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.

You have made me a complete person. You are everything to me. And I cannot think of living life without you. And I love you forever.

I love you more than my own skin.

An anniversary is a reminder as to why you love and married this person.

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

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.

That there’s no more important decision in life than who you marry.

You marry somebody; you love everything about them. You grow to learn about them. You never learn everything.

So I think you have to marry for the right reasons, and marry the right person.

I love the institution of marriage, and I love my marriage.

In terms of my marriage, you know, falling in love with my husband was by far the best thing that’s ever happened to me.

I love marriage. I think it’s a wonderful institution and it’s the most important decision you make.

I don’t call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don’t flatter me.

I love you – I am at rest with you – I have come home.

I trust you: That’s huge. That’s truth. That’s real love. Everyone uses ‘I love you’ so loosely.

Because of you, I laugh a little harder, cry a little less, and smile a lot more.

I just want you to know, that when I picture myself happy, it’s with you.

I swear when our lips touch, I can taste the next sixty years of my life.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love you because I know no other way.

When I follow my heart, it leads me to you.

I love you much most beautiful darling more than anyone on the earth and I like you better than everything in the sky.

I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart) I am never without it.

Forever is a measure of time used by people who share an ordinary love. Our extraordinary love is immeasurable … for us, forever just won’t do.

In life, it’s not where you go, it’s who you travel with.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Two minds with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.

Two human loves make one divine.

You know you’re in love when you stop comparing.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin — it’s the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

In a time when nothing is more certain than change, the commitment of two people to one another has become difficult and rare. Yet, by its scarcity, the beauty and value of this exchange have only been enhanced.

Come, let’s be a comfortable couple and take care of each other! How glad we shall be, that we have somebody we are fond of always, to talk to and sit with.

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