We have the greatest pre-nuptial agreement in the world. It's called love.
- Gene Perret

To get the full value of joy, you must have someone to divide it with.
- Mark Twain

The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.
- Eden Ahbez

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
- Goethe

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
- Karen Sunde

The only purpose of an engagement ring is to show you "belong" to someone, and your man makes bank.
- Jessica Valenti

I go short and sweet on the engagement. I did have a longish engagement, but I think short and sweet is best.
- Leelee Sobieski

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.
- Barbara de Angelis

I try to remember, as I hear about friends getting engaged, that it's not about the ring and it's not about the wedding. It's a grave thing, getting married. And it's easy to get swept up in the wrong things.
- Gwyneth Paltrow

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
- Andre Maurois

When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with a person, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
- Billy Crystal

Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.
- George Levinger

When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
- Nora Ephron

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
- Michael Leunig

Love is a game that two can play and both win.
- Eva Gabor

Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate.
- Barnett R. Brickner

Chains do not hold marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years.
- Simone Signoret