Marriage quotes for vows, toasts and cards, from the people who knew what a good marriage takes.
Michelle Obama · The source reads: “Happy 25th anniversary @barackobama. A quarter of a century later, you're still my best friend & the most extraordinary man I know. I love you.” · Michelle Obama's Instagram post to Barack on their twenty fifth wedding anniversary.
Attributed to Winston Churchill · The reply to Lady Astor's "If I were your wife, I'd put poison in your coffee"; the exchange was told before Churchill's day and pinned on him later.
Ronald Reagan · The source reads: “The important thing is I don't want to be without you for the next 20 years, or 40, or however many there are.” · Reagan's twentieth anniversary letter to Nancy, joking that they had been married twenty minutes, not twenty years.
Winston Churchill · Recorded in Walter Graebner, My Dear Mr. Churchill, 1946
Jimmy Carter · Carter, then ninety, at the 2015 Carter Center press conference where he discussed his cancer, after sixty nine years of marriage.
Winston Churchill · To Clementine on their wedding anniversary.
Attributed to Amy Bloom · Popular under Amy Bloom's name, and just as often under the humorist Sam Levenson's; no book or interview has been found for either.
Often credited to Groucho Marx · Credited to Groucho and to Mae West only decades later; the Boston Post of 28 Nov 1916 has the comedian Raymond Hitchcock saying "Marriage is a great institution; but who wants to live in an institution?" in the musical Betty.
Oscar Wilde · Lord Illingworth in the picture gallery at Hunstanton.
Maggie Carpenter · Julia Roberts's bride who bolts from every altar until she meets Ike in Runaway Bride (1999) · The source reads: “But I also guarantee that if I don't ask you to be mine, I'll regret it for the rest of my life, because I know in my heart you're the only one for me.” · Maggie proposing to Ike at the end with the very words he once used on her, after a lifetime of running from the altar.
Winston Churchill · Churchill's advice to a young couple; he had five himself.
Attributed to Joanne Woodward · Woodward on fifty years with Paul Newman, repeated everywhere but never pinned to a dated interview.
Clementine Churchill · The source reads: “Je t'aime passionement – I feel less shy in French” · Written to Winston Churchill in August 1908, days after he proposed to her in the garden temple at Blenheim Palace; they married on 12 September and the marriage lasted fifty-seven years.
A Greek proverb.
George Levinger · Usually pinned on Leo Tolstoy, but the line belongs to George Levinger, the University of Massachusetts psychologist who studied why couples last.
Abigail Adams · The source reads: “...and in the domestick way should I draw you the picture of my Heart, it would be what I hope you still would Love; tho it containd nothing New; the early possession you obtained there; and the absolute power you have ever mantaind over it; leaves not the smallest space unoccupied.” · Abigail to John Adams, then in Europe, December 23, 1782, after years of separation.
Henry van Dyke · Written for the sundial in the garden of Yaddo, first printed in 1901; in his own 1904 collection he changed the last words to "time is not."
Michael Scott · Steve Carell's regional manager in The Office (2005 to 2013) · The opening of Michael's uninvited toast at Phyllis and Bob Vance's wedding.
Albert Einstein · On Michele Besso, in the same letter of condolence, March 1955.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry · The source reads: “Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.” · The author of The Little Prince on what binds his fellow pilots, in his memoir of flying the mail; read at weddings ever since.
Phyllis Diller · Her twist on the old marriage advice "never go to bed mad", printed as a heading in her 1966 book with a punchline about her stage husband Fang.
Charlotte Brontë · Rochester's proposal to Jane under the chestnut tree at Thornfield, which she at first takes for mockery because she believes he means to marry Blanche Ingram.
Jerome K. Jerome · The source reads: “Nothing, so it seems to me, is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life.” · The Stranger's line in his play about a lodger who changes a boarding house.
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