A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he's finished.
Zsa Zsa Gabor · Quoted in Newsweek in 1960, the year of her fifth husband.
Relationship quotes on trust, partnership and the people we choose, from Hesiod and Terence to C. S. Lewis and Maya Angelou, each checked to its source.
Zsa Zsa Gabor · Quoted in Newsweek in 1960, the year of her fifth husband.
Napoleon Bonaparte · The source reads: “[Of his relations with the Empress Josephine:] I generally had to give in.” · Of his relations with the Empress Josephine
Leo Tolstoy · Levin, three months married to Kitty, discovering what the wedding had made of them.
Mr. Incredible · Bob Parr, voiced by Craig T. Nelson, in The Incredibles (2004) · The source reads: “You are my greatest adventure, and I almost missed it.” · Bob Parr to Helen, held in Syndrome's cell with the children listening, just after admitting he has been blind to what he has.
Helen Rowland · From the Prelude of her 1922 collection of epigrams, written as a New York newspaper columnist who called herself the Bachelor Girl.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer · Written from Tegel prison to his fiancée Maria von Wedemeyer, whom he had become engaged to three months before his arrest; the two never married, and he was hanged at Flossenbürg in April 1945.
Sometimes labelled a French saying; no source found.
The Bible · Proverbs 12:4
Willa Cather · The Professor's House (1925)
Samuel A. Taylor · Vertigo (1958), screenplay, spoken by Kim Novak
Helen Rowland · The popular version trims "go home" and turns "go to sleep" into "fall asleep".
Leo · Channing Tatum's husband who courts his wife all over again after she loses her memory in The Vow (2012) · Leo's handwritten vow to Paige at their art museum wedding, the vow the whole film turns on.
Mark Twain · Twain's note to his wife Livy on her thirtieth birthday, six years after he won her, written at their Hartford home.
Ralph Waldo Emerson · Representative Men (1850), Montaigne; or, The Skeptic
Thomas Fuller · The Holy State and the Profane State. Of Marriage
A widely shared anniversary line with no known author.
Iris Murdoch · A Severed Head (1961)
Johnny Cash · A birthday note to June Carter Cash for her 65th birthday, written in Odense, Denmark, on 23 June 1994 after 26 years of marriage; voted the greatest love letter of all time in a 2015 Beagle Street poll.
Winston Churchill · To Colin Thornton-Kemsley, 1940 (Colin Thornton-Kemsley)
Diana, Princess of Wales · From the Panorama interview.
Winston Churchill · From his life of Marlborough.
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