3 Days to 10 Years

We Interrupt this regularly scheduled story for a bit of silliness and wisdom.....much like marriage.....

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. ~Rita Rudner

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

One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again. ~Judith Viorst

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for granted relationship. ~Iris Murdoch

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

Love is a flower which turns into fruit at marriage. ~Finnish Proverb

Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you. ~Jean Rostand, Le Mariage, 1927

Like good wine, marriage gets better with age - once you learn to keep a cork in it. ~Gene Perret

It takes a loose rein to keep a marriage tight. ~John Stevenson

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being. ~Oscar Wilde

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast. ~Marlene Dietrich

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character. ~Peter Devries

Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins. ~Langdon Mitchell

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility. ~George Levinger

Married life teaches one invaluable lesson: to think of things far enough ahead not to say them. ~Jefferson Machamer

Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner. ~Charles Caleb Colton

A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers. ~African Proverb


To keep your marriage brimming,
With love in the loving cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it;
Whenever you're right, shut up.
~Ogden Nash