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. - Socrates
Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts. - Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part III
There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage. - Martin Luther
It is said that when the one man loves the one woman and the one woman loves the one man, the very angels desert heaven and sit in that house and sing for joy. - The Kama Sutra
The bride comes from the heart of dawn, And the bridegroom from the sunset. There is a wedding in the valley. A day too vast for recording. - Kahlil Gibran
For I'm not so old, and not so plain, And I'm quite prepared to marry again. - Sir William S. Gilbert, Iolanthe
Stand by your man. - Tammy Wynette
Modern love gets me to the church on time. - David Bowie
The world of marriage is possessed of two wings-the bride and the groom. As long as these two wings are not equivalent in strength the bird will not fly. - adapted from a Baha'i wedding quotation
Out beyond ideas of right and wrong, there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, there world is too full to talk about. Ideas, language, even the phrase "each other" doesn't make any sense. - Rumi
Apart from Love, everything passes away. The way to Heaven is in your heart. Open and lift the wings of Love! When Love's wings are strong, you need no ladder. - Rumi
Tender words said to one another are stored in the secret heart of Heaven. One day like rain they will fall and spread, and your mystery will grow green over the world. - Rumi
You might as well face it, you're addicted to love. - Robert Palmer
How wonderful life is while you're in the world. - Bernie Taupin
Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds. - William Shakespeare, Sonnet cxvi
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. - Helen Keller
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. - Friedrich Nietzsche
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. - Carl Jung
Nothing's gonna harm you, not while I'm around. - Stephen Sondheim
There is nothing like a dame. - Oscar Hammerstein
One half of me is yours, the other half yours-Mine own, I should say; but if mine, then yours. And so all yours. - Shakespeare, The Merchant Of Venice
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul. - Judy Garland
I shall light a candle of understanding in thine heart, which shall not be put out. - Apocrypha 11, Esdras 14:25
My greatest good fortune in a life of brilliant experiences has been to find you, and to lead my life with you. - Winston Churchill, in a letter to his wife
I'm an idiot for your love. - Pat McCurdy
You can have this heart to break. - Billy Joel
The moral man and woman will find the moral law beginning in the relation between husband and wife, but ending only in the vast reaches of the universe. - Confucius
God creates new worlds constantly. In what way? By causing marriages to take place. - from the Kabbalah, Zohar 1.89a
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's souls all along. - Rumi
My heart craves the kiss of your love, my soul thirsts for the most intimate embrace joining me to you. - Saint Gertrude
There's something in your eyes makes me want to lose myself in your arms. - Randy Newman
I love you just the way you are. - Billy Joel
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone…We find it with another. - Thomas Merton
Come, south wind recalling love. Breathe on my garden, let aromas swell in the air, my love will graze among the flowers. - St. John of the Cross
When a boy and a girl experience their first kiss, they find love's oneness, a feeling so strong that they can no longer see each other's faults. The kiss is a gateway to the natural gift of self. - The Kama Sutra
I clasp my hands, my sleeve: Dew and perfume and color. If he flowered on a branch I would plant him And love him every lonely hour. - Geisha song
Then I saw her face, now I'm a believer. - The Monkees
You've got a friend in me. - Randy Newman
Your body is more fit for love than war. Let heroes wage war; devote yourself to love at all times. - Ovid
Love is in truth a baffling ailment, it is a delightful malady, a most desirable sickness. Whoever is free of it likes not to be immune, and whoever is struck down by it yearns not to recover. - Ibn Hazm
Like a great storm the two of us shake the tree of life down to the most hidden fibers of its roots. - Pablo Neruda
Besides the wintry water she and I built a red bonfire wearing away our lips from kissing each other's souls, throwing everything into the fire burning up our life. - Pablo Neruda
Sweet dreams are made of this. - Eurythmics
It's very clear our love is here to stay. - Ira Gershwin
From love, for here do we begin and end, all grandeur comes, all truth and beauty-from pervading love-that gone, we are as dust. - William Wordsworth
When two people are at one in their inmost hearts, they shatter even the strength of iron or bronze. - I Ching
Love with delight discourses in my mind Upon my lady's admirable gifts… Beyond the range of human intellect. - Dante Alighieri
Give all to love; Obey thy heart: Friends, kindred, days, estate, good fame, plans, credit and the Muse, nothing refuse. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
I do believe you are indeed an extraordinary thing. - k.d. lang
I think I love you. - David Cassidy
Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other. - Carl Jung
Thou art the book, The library whereon I look - Henry King
And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me - Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee
Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you. - Shakespeare, As You Like It
Your smile spreads like a butterfly. - Mario Ruppolo in Il Postino
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine! - Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou are more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, and summer's lease hath all too short a date. - Shakespeare, sonnet 18
Base men being in love have then a nobility in their natures more than is native to them. - Shakespeare, Othello
'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In courtesy I'd have her chiefly learned; Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned. - William Butler Yeats
I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day. - Margaret Mitchell, Gone With The Wind
Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to. - Mark Twain
My soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is. - Psalms 63:1
All thoughts, all passions, all delights, whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, and feed his sacred flame. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Love kindled by virtue always kindles another, provided that its flame appear outwardly. - Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Take my wife…please! - Henny Youngman
My love was so hot as mighty nigh to burst my boilers. - Davy Crockett
Thou truly canst not guide whom thou lovest; but God guideth whom He will; and He best knoweth those who yield to guidance. - The Koran, Chapter 28:55
The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still. - Alexander Pope
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. - Goethe
Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love. - Shakespeare, Hamlet
Love and a cough cannot be hid. - George Herbert
It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end. - Leonardo da Vinci
Happy, thrice happy and more, are they whom an unbroken bond unites and whose love shall know no sundering quarrels so long as they shall live. - Horace, Odes
Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made, our times are in his hand. - Robert Browning
A Woman is a foreign land, Of which, though there he settle young, A man will ne'er quite understand The customs, politics, and tongue. - Coventry Patmore
Always contented with his life, And with his dinner, and his wife. - Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin
Being a husband is a whole-time job. - Arnold Bennett
Lord, I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing! - Jonathan Swift
Who does not love wine, women and song Remains a fool his whole life long - Johann Heinrich Voss (attributed)
Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. - Francis Bacon
In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love. - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain. - Miguel de Cervantes
Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table. - T.S. Eliot "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
They say, best men are moulded out of faults; And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad - Shakespeare's Measure For Measure
He tells you when you've got on too much lipstick, And helps you with your girdle when your hips stick. - Ogden Nash, The Perfect Husband
Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography. - Robert Byrne
Those final two words: Mine and Thine. - Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote de la Mancha
So I can't live either without you or with you. - Ovid, Amores
Love is a many splendored thing! Love lifts us up where we belong! All you need is love! - Ewan McGregor in Moulin Rouge
Why do I fall in love with every woman I see that shows me the least bit of attention? - Joel (Jim Carrey) in Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind by Charlie Kaufman
I don't see anything I don't like about you. - Joel (Jim Carrey) in Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind by Charlie Kaufman
I got rhythm, I got music, I got my man- Who could ask for anything more? - Ira Gershwin
Twas my one Glory - Let it be Remembered I was owned of Thee - Emily Dickinson
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness. - George Sand
I would walk 500 miles and I would walk 500 more Just to be the man who walked 1,000 miles to fall down at your door. - The Proclaimers
Love and marriage, love and marriage, Go together like a horse and carriage. - Sammy Cahn
Thou art to me a delicious torment. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The strongest and sweetest songs are yet to be sung. - Walt Whitman
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on earth. - John Lyly
God always pairs like with like. - Homer, The Odyssey
Change everything, except your loves. - Voltaire
Pleasure and love are the pinions of great deeds. - Goethe
Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife. - Euripides, Antigone
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it. - The Song of Solomon 8:7
Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins. - Proverbs 10:12
I am my beloved's, and his desire is toward me. - The Song of Solomon 7:10
Follow your bliss. - Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth
I humbly do beseech you of your pardon for too much loving you. - Shakespeare, Othello
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain. - Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis
Love sought is good, but giv'n unsought is better. - Shakespeare, Twelfth-Night
Love knows nothing of order. - Saint Jerome
Absence makes the heart grow fonder. - Sextus Propertius
Hell, Madame, is to love no longer. - Georges Bernanos
What is love?...It is the morning and the evening star. - Sinclair Lewis
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of. - Blaise Pascal
If I am not worth the wooing, I surely am not worth the winning. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. - Victor Hugo
True love never decreases, even after one hundred years. - The Kama Sutra
For every man there is a woman worth a thousand injuries. - Sextus Propertius
Feeling is everything. - Goethe
For love is heaven, and heaven is love. - Sir Walter Scott
In choosing a lover you are choosing your destiny. - Mantak Chia
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. - Leo Tolstoy
One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul. - Honoré de Balzac
Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one. - Friedrich Halm
There is no remedy for love but to love more. - Henry David Thoreau
Hail wedded love, mysterious law, true source of all humanity! - John Milton
Love conquers all. - Virgil
The greatest thing about love is that when it's there, you know it. - Bill Cosby
Love is our highest word and the synonym for God. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love. - Sophocles
Every wedding where true lovers wed, helps on the march of universal Love. - Herman Melville
Let there be spaces in your togetherness. - Kahlil Gibran
Because of deep love, one is courageous. - Lao-tzu
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing. - Proverbs 18:22
Union gives strength. - Aesop
How much better is thy love than wine! - Song of Solomon 4:10
If you would marry suitably, marry your equal. - Ovid
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. - Jean Anouilh
He who is in love is wise and becoming wiser. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
All the world is queer save me and thee; and sometimes I think thee a little queer. - Anonymous Quaker speaking to his wife
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