I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options.
That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.
-- Candice Bergen

Ideally, couples need three lives; one for him, one for her, and one for them together.
-- Jacqueline Bisset

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love. -- Pearl S. Buck

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye
keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love.
Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel.
Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.
-- Ann Landers

A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together.
It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.
-- Dave Meurer

Love is often the fruit of marriage.
-- Moliere

And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending "don't ask, don't tell," making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples. -- Barack Obama

If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence,
the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms.
The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.
-- Octavio Paz

I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse. -- Dr. Benjamin Spock

A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity.
The order varies for any given year.
-- Paul Sweeney

That is what marriage really means:
helping one another to reach the full status of being persons,
responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.
-- Paul Tournier

I think it's healthy for couples to be away from each other for short periods. -- Liv Tyler