Quotes About Love And Marriage

In honor of Valentine's Day, here are some of my favorite quotes about love and marriage. I know several of them are actually song lyrics, but there's just something about a good love song that stays with you. Music is one of the few things that can inspire and depress you at the same time.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.-Aristotle

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. Antoine de Saint Exupery, author

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.-A. A. Milne, author

When you are in love, you can't fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams.-Dr. Seuss, author. Who said he could only do kids' books? :)

Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins. -Lao Tzu

Marriage, like a lot of other things in life, is what you make of it.-my parents

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.-Bruce Lee, actor

When I look into your eyes, I can see forever.-Survivor, 'The Search Is Over' . I can never hear this song without crying.

Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.-Gloria Steinem

The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends. -B. R. Ambedkar, Indian philosopher and activist

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, actress

I know this isn't very Valentine's-y, but breakups are a part of love that we have (or will) to face. Breaking up can actually be positive because we often learn something about ourselves and what we want in life as time goes on. That, and getting rid of the wrong person frees up space in your heart for the right person.

If you go into a marriage thinking you're going to get divorced, you might as well not even bother.-my dad

Watch how a man treats his mother, because that's how he'll end up treating you. -A lot of people. Trust me, it's true. 

Maybe get rid of you and then I'll get back to me.-TLC

Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it's better to leave them broken than to try to hurt yourself putting them back together.-Unknown

Every Time I scratch my nails down someone else's back, I hope you feel it. - Alanis Morrisette, singer/songwriter

I'd rather get a hundred thousand paper cuts on my face than spend one more minute with you.-'Weird Al' Yankovic

Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss and ends with a teardrop.-unknown

Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.-Mark Twain, author