"Never marry anyone you could not sit next to during a three-day bus trip." ~ Roger Ebert
In my parents I saw a model where they were really always communicating, doing things together. They were really kind of a team. I wanted some of that magic myself. ~ Bill Gates
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage. ~ Martin Luther
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.~ Friedrich W. Nietzsche
Marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day. ~ Andre Maurois
Love is blind-- Marriage is the eye-opener. ~ Pauline Thomason
The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters. ~ Sir Harold Nicolson
In marriage do thou be wise: Prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self. ~ William Penn