Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity. -Honoré de Balzac

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out. -Michel de Montaigne

Marriage is like the army. Everybody complains, but you'd be surprised at how many re-enlist. -Unknown

I would like to have engraved inside every wedding band, "Be kind to one another." This is the Golden Rule of marriage and the secret of making love last through the years. -Randolph Roy

Opposites attract, but after marriage, opposites attack. Most of the time, we are attracted to people who don't have the things that we have. Incompatibility is why we get married, but it's also used as a reason to divorce. Incompatibility is just a lack of communication. If we just try to love [our spouse] the way we want to be loved, we are in trouble. Unless you communicate, it's difficult to know how to love another person. -Dr. Charles Lowery

Marriage is when a man and woman become as one; the trouble starts when they try to decide which one. -Unknown

A good wife is more precious than jewels. -Proverbs 31: 10-12, 25-31

When I was a young man, I vowed never to marry until I found the ideal woman. Well, I found her. But, alas, she was waiting for the ideal man. -Robert Schuman

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. -Mignon McLaughlin

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. -Edgar Allan Poe

For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it. -Ivan Panin

How many loved your moments of glad grace.
And loved your beauty with love false or true.
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face. -William Butler Yeats