Life is daring risk or it’s nothing at all.

— Helen Keller

If one hand’s full at the front door, / The other hand will unlock it. / But the front-door key is almost always / In the full hand’s pocket.

— Bill Scher, “It Always Happens”

 

What can make a marriage work is surprisingly simple. Happily married couples aren’t smarter, richer, or more psychologically astute than others. But in their day-to-day lives, they have hit upon a dynamic that keeps their negative thoughts and feelings about each other (which all couples have) from overwhelming their positive ones. They have what I call an emotionally intelligent marriage.

— John Mordechai Gottman

If your pick-up line sounds like a title to a country song, don’t use it.

— Joy Browne

Never say, “My wife doesn’t understand me” or “You’re the best looking person in the room” or “Want to spend the night with me?” on the assumption that if you don’t ask you don’t get. We’re talking about finding a date, not spending the night in jail.

— Joy Browne

Men and women are different. Not better or worse – different. Just about the only thing they have in common is that they belong to the same species.

— Barbara and Allen Pease

 

What I want in a wife is someone whom I know so well that she is a part of who I am and I of her. Someone to fill all that I am not but aspire to be. My wife is someone not just to share a life with but to build a life with. This is what marriage is to me, the sharing of two lives to complete each other. It is true that people change, but if people can change together then they need not grow apart.

— Randolph Johnson

In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.

— Samuel Butler

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

— Agatha Christie

The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people look back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

— Eugene Kennedy

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

— Martin Luther