Starting anew is always a good thing! Here is Vol. 1 of "Artful Living on the Bluff" for you to enjoy. While I am not contributing new material to this blog, please feel free to look around and then visit me at the new and (hopefully) improved "Artful Living on the Bluff" blog at artfullivingonthebluff.blogspot.com

Saturday, April 7, 2012

Morning Coffee Quotes - Marriage Rocks!

Photo by Cindy Caraway
"Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart."
- Nathaniel Hawthorne

"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

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

"No man is truly married until he understands every word his wife is NOT saying."
- Unknown

"There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day knowing someone on the other side of that door is waiting for the sound of his footsteps."
- Ronald Reagan

"To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up."
- Ogden Nash

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

"Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance."
- I Corinthians 13:7

"Success in marriage does not come merely through FINDING the right mate, but through BEING the right mate."
- Barnett Brickner

"Let there be spaces in your togetherness."
- Kahlil Gibran

"You can't be right and married at the same time. If you're trying to be right and prove your partner wrong, you've stepped outside the marriage."
- Frank Pittman

"The first duty of love is to listen."
- Paul Tillich

"Marriage has some thorns, but celibacy has no roses."
- Vernon McLellan

"The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse predict an ailing marriage: criticism, defensiveness, stonewalling and contempt. The worst of these is contempt."
- John Gottman

"He who finds a wife finds what is good."
- Proverbs 18:22

"When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Commitment is making a choice to give up other choices."
- Scott Stanley

"My heart is ever at your service."
- William Shakespeare

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