Quotes About Couples

Romances paint at full length people's wooings, but only give a bust of marriages: but no one cares for matrimonial cooings

Dr. Dave Stoop tells us that one-tenth of one percent of couples who pray together daily will get a divorce. That incredible statistic underlies what Norman Vincent Peale, the well-known pastor from New York City, used to say: "I have never met a couple who prayed together who didn't stay together.

You look wonderful together and it is, no doubt, not an exaggeration to say that you are just made for each other. In my eyes, you are the best couple in the world. God bless both of you.

It is really a pleasure to see you as a perfect couple since the last 25 years. I have and will always pray to God that your togetherness lasts till eternity. Best wishes for your happy married life.

Remember the yesterdays, Plan your tomorrows, And celebrate your today, Happy anniversary to a lovely couple, God bless both of you.

A good wife gives happiness and long-life to her husband. Allow me, dear, for our anniversary to wish you to share this long life with me! Anniversary Wish for couples, Let your love never goes away, let your life will always be interesting and full of happiness!

Being single is ok but after a while you get tired of seeing cute couples out there. Then you start to wonder when you're going to be part of one...

When you are single, all you see is happy couples and when you are in a relationship all you see is happy singles!

A sorcerer and a harlot . . . There's something sad about that." He grasped her hand and kissed the tips of her fingers. "There's something sad about all couples," he said.

We make a sad couple," she said, as though making a casual observation. "Why would you say that?" "A sorcerer and a harlot . . . There's something sad about that." He grasped her hand and kissed the tips of her fingers. "There's something sad about all couples," he said.

Darlene used to say it was a couple's duty to keep their eyes open, their ears open, their hearts open and their mouths shut." He laughed robustly.

Not only were the couples unhappy from their respective fights, they are now even more unhappy as a result of comparing themselves with the other couple!

Children are God's or nature's practical joke on couples—that which is produced by passion then proceeds to nearly kill it.

Domani, Lettore e Lettrice, se sarete insieme, se vi coricherete nello stesso letto come una coppia assestata, ognuno accenderà la lampada al suo capezzale e sprofonderà nel suo libro; due letture parallele accompagneranno l'approssimarsi del sonno; prima tu poi tu spegnerete la luce; reduci da universi separati, vi ritroverete fugacemente nel buio dove tutte le lontananze si cancellano, prima che sogni divergenti vi trascinino ancora tu da una parte e tu dall'altra.

Straight couples don't have to be monogamous to be married or married to be monogamous. Monogamy no more defines marriage than the presence of children does. Monogamy isn't compulsory and its absence doesn't invalidate a marriage.

No couples in Virginia can adopt other than a married couple - that's the right policy.

He searched her face, his icy-blue eyes keen and cold. She knew she should hold him, should tell him how much she loved him and trusted him and needed him. But something held her back. There it was again. A silence between them. Something else unsaid. Is this how it starts? Clara wondered. Those chasms between couples, filled not with comfort and familiarity, but with too much unsaid, and too much said.

We fall back into silence. I look around XO Café and notice that chatter happens mostly at tables where the diners are young and hip. The older couples, the ones sporting wedding bands that wink with their silverware, eat without the pepper of conversation. Is it because they are so comfortable, they already know what the other is thinking? Or is it because after a certain point, there is simply nothing left to say?

We fall back into silence. I look around XO Cafe and notice that chatter happens mostly at tables where the diners are young and hip. The older couples, the ones sporting wedding bands that wink with their silverware, eat without the pepper of conversation. Is it because they are so comfortable, they already know what the other is thinking? Or is it because after a certain point, there is simply nothing left to say?

It's difficult to let someone get close to you if you feel defective and flawed as a human being. Shame-based couples maintain nonintimacy through poor communication, nonproductive circular fighting, games, manipulation, vying for control, withdrawal, blaming and confluence. Confluence is the agreement never to disagree. Conflulence creates pseudointimacy.

I miss him in so many ways, but right now I miss him in the way you always miss someone when you're single among a room full of couples.

I see those couples, so in love. Makes me wonder if I'll ever be like that.

There may be as many people taking pictures as there are brides and grooms. One of them for every one of us. Clickety-click. The thought makes the couples a little giddy. They feel that space is contagious. They are here but also there, already in albums and slide projectors, filling picture frames with their microcosmic bodies, the minikin selves they are trying to become.

I think that's why so many couples fight, because they want their partners to validate them and affirm them, and if they don't get that, they feel as though they're going to die. And so they lash out. But it's a terrible thing to wake up and realize the person you just finished crucifying wasn't Jesus.