68 private quotes tagged anniversary

“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.”— George Bernard Shaw

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

“Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.”— Benjamin Franklin

“So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you - and fight alongside you - until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way.”— Barack Obama

“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.”— Julia Child

“There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.”— Martin Luther

“The London games mark the 24th anniversary of my winning two golds and setting the world record in the heptathlon. Someone is going to want it records are made to be broken - it's only a matter of time. I hope mine will outlive me.”— Jackie Joyner-Kersee

“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.”— H. L. Mencken

“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

“Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!”— Patrice Leconte

“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.”— Pope John Paul II

“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.”— W. Somerset Maugham

“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.”— Henny Youngman

“Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?”— Barbra Streisand

“Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom wait until they have been married longer.”— E. W. Howe

“The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.”— Peter De Vries

“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.”— Pope John Paul II

“Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.”— Jonathan Swift

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

“I've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she'll kill me.”— Henny Youngman

“One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.”— Honore de Balzac

“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.”— Blake Shelton

“The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.”— A. P. Herbert

“That there's no more important decision in life than who you marry.”— Brad Paisley

“More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.”— Doug Larson