I don’t know about you, but I enjoy reading quotes. I like funny quotes, inspirational quotes, and practical quotes. I hope you enjoy the below quotes on relationships.
Make sure to take away something from the quotes below and implement a change!
- “We need a witness to our lives. There’s a billion people on the planet… I mean, what does any one life really mean? But in a marriage, you’re promising to care about everything. The good things, the bad things, the terrible things, the mundane things… all of it, all of the time, every day. You’re saying ‘Your life will not go unnoticed because I will notice it. Your life will not go un-witnessed because I will be your witness’.”
- Susan Sarandon (in the 2004 movie Shall We Dance)
- “Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy, you must have somebody to divide it with.”
- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens, American author and humorist, 1835-1910)
- “A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, and always with the same person.”
- Mignon McLaughlin (American Journalist and Author, 1913-1983)
- “The best way to remember your wife’s birthday is to forget it once.”
- E. Joseph Cossman (American Entrepreneur, 1918-2002)
- “Love is grand; divorce is a hundred grand.”
- Anonymous
- “An archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.”
- Agatha Christie (British Author, 1890-1976)
- “Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habits and then complain that he’s not the man she married?”
- Barbra Streisand (American Singer and Actress, born 1942)
- “Be careful who you marry, because the only thing worse than being lonely is wishing you were.”
- my Uncle Willie (currently 80 years old)
- “I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.”
- Barbara Bush (First Lady of the United States 1989-1993, born 1925)
- “By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll be happy. If you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.”
- Socrates (Greek Philosopher, 469BC-399BC)
- “We always hold hands. If I let go, she shops.”
- Henry “Henny” Youngman (American Comedian, 1906-1998)
- “Love is unselfishly choosing for another’s highest good.”
- C. S. Lewis (British Novelist and Christian Apologist, 1898-1963)
- “The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.”
- Mother Teresa (Catholic Nun, 1910-1997)
- “I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.”
- Rita Rudner (American Comedienne and Actress, born 1953)
- “Don’t marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can’t live without.”
- James C. Dobson (American Christian Author and Psychologist, born 1936)
- “A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.”
- Ruth Bell Graham (wife of Evangelist Billy Graham, 1920-2007)
- “Marriage, ultimately, is the practice of becoming passionate friends.”
- Dr. Harville Hendrix (Clinical Pastoral Counselor, born 1936)
- “Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. That is what makes a marriage last – more than passion or even sex!”
- Simone Signoret (French Actress, 1921-1985)
- “Relationships, marriages are ruined where one person continues to learn, develop and grow and the other person stands still.”
- Catherine Pulsifer (Glass Artist and Author, born 1957)
- “There is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved.”
- Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin (under pseudonym George Sand, French Author and Baroness, 1804-1876)
I hope these quotes have made you smile, made you think, and given you some inspiration. Have a great weekend!
Leave a Reply