Love-matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

When you make a sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

The Japanese have a word for it. It's Judo -- the art of conquering by yielding. The Western equivalent of judo is, 'Yes, dear.'

On this our anniversary, we may not have wealth, but we do have each other and that is worth more than all the money in the world.

One advantage of marriage it seems to me is that when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you it keeps you together until maybe you fall in again.

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.