J. Paul Getty Quotes

There's a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with someone and getting married. Usually, after you get married, you fall in love with the person even more.

I have a strong marriage, and my wife and I love each other.

When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

I wouldn't change being married. It was good for me, and I was happy for a period of time, and I learned a lot about myself.

People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.

Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage.

Marriage gives you a new respect for a person.

Marriage is a difficult project. When seven years have passed and all your body's cells have been replaced, you're meant to experience that seven-year itch.

Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.

They say marriage will change you but it didn't change me. Being in love changed me.

I want to marry Arline because I love her - which means I want to take care of her. That is all there is to it. I want to take care of her. I am anxious for the responsibilities and uncertainties of taking care of the girl I love.

I do believe in soulmates and happy/successful marriages. No marriage can be happy 24x7 for 365 days. Both partners have to make the relationship work, is what I believe in.

Men go into marriage with virtually no expectations whatsoever. Ten years later, the men are delightfully surprised to find out that it's actually kind of nice, and the women have sort of had to take a nose dive from what they thought it was going to be.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

My husband and I are best of friends first and foremost. We fight like cats and dogs, but never stay mad for long. I was lucky to find him, he is in every way, my soulmate.

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

I was not always someone who wanted to get married or thought I would get married, so being a true writer, I was always navel-gazing: 'What are good marriages? What are bad marriages?'

Every marriage is different, but the most important factor in a strong relationship is the love and harmony between the couple.

Fortunately, I have seen only successful and motivating relationships around me that inspired me to get married.

Do not measure your marriage by how much love you feel today: measure it by how much love you've offered today.

I have a very intense marriage.

Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages.

In December 1998, I considered myself an expert on love. I was almost a year into a relationship, one that had grown more slowly than I had wished, but once it flowered it was much more stimulating than any marriage or relationship I had known.

All my six husbands married me for different reasons.