“Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom when we love the ones we marry.”

“Marriage is a wonderful institution…but who wants to live in an institution?”

“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.”

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

“Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is playing a practical joke?”

“Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins.”

“Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly”

“A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.”

“After a few years of marriage a man can look right at a woman without seeing her and a woman can see right through a man without looking at him.”

“The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.”

“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.”

“People who love only once in their lives are. . . shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.”

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

“To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.”

“Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. So each is inevitably disappointed.”