Romance Lost

Death ends a life, not a relationship. - Jack Lemmon

A happy marriage is the union of two forgivers. - Ruth Bell Graham

Sticking with a marriage. That's true grit, man. - Jeff Bridges

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has not pleasure. - Samuel Johnson

The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding. - Oscar Wilde

There is no perfect marriage, for there are no perfect men. - French Proverb

Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I've been married twice but I haven't had a marriage yet. - Jennifer Lopez

If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it. - Unknown

Marriage is but for a little while. It is alimony that is forever. - Quentin Crisp

The general rule is that people who enjoy life also enjoy marriage. - Phyllis Battelle

I don't really get romance. Bring me fish or moose, not flowers. - Eden Robinson

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short. - Andre Maurois

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor. - Lady Bird Johnson

Marriage, like a submarine, is only safe if you get all the way inside. - Frank Pittman

Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake a whole relationship. - Sharon Stone

I think gay marriage is something that should be between a man and a woman. - Arnold Schwarzenegger

I love romance. I'm a sucker for it. I love it so much. It's pathetic. - Drew Barrymore

Marriage is very difficult. It's like a 5,000-piece jigsaw puzzle, all sky. - Cathy Ladman

In marriage, being the right person is as important as finding the right person. - Wilbert Donald Gough

People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace. - Zig Ziglar

Marketers need to build digital relationships and reputation before closing a sale. - Chris Brogan

Marriage is the harmony of God synchronizing two wills with the will of the Father. - Ravi Zacharias

Content builds relationships. Relationships are built on trust. Trust drives revenue. - Andrew Davis

I believe in tying the marriage knot, as long as it's around the woman's neck. - WC Fields

A girl who thinks that a man will treat her better after marriage than before is a fool. - William C. Hall

We learn the most from imperfect relationships - things like forgiveness and compassion. - Andrea Thompson

He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about. - Oscar Wilde

The key to a long and healthy marriage is that, honestly, there's nothing worth fighting about. - Jay Leno

Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else. - Nicholas Sparks

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings. - Vicki Baum

Love is an ideal thing, marriage is a real thing. A confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. - Johann Wolfgang Goethe

Competition can damage self-esteem, create anxiety, and lead to cheating and hurt feelings. But so can romantic love. - Mariah Burton Nelson

A relationship without trust is like a car without gas. You can stay in it all you want, but it won't go anywhere. - Jay Shetty

The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches. - Antonin Scalia

While some pain is probably inevitable in all relationships, successful couples are usually the ones who are able to forgive. - Ilona Boniwell

Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin, but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building. - Oscar Wilde

If the marriage needs help, the answer almost always is have more fun. Drop your list of grievances and go ride a roller coaster. - Garrison Keillor

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with the window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open. - George Bernard Shaw

Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you. - Helen Rowland