Famous Quotes

"Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship."

Marilyn Monroe on Anniversary

More quotes about Anniversary

• "More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse."

  Doug Larson on Anniversary

• "We are not the same persons this year as last nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person."

  W. Somerset Maugham on Anniversary

• "There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage."

  Martin Luther on Anniversary

• "Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness."

  Benjamin Franklin on Anniversary

• "Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open."

  George Bernard Shaw on Anniversary

More quotes by Marilyn Monroe

• "Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you."

• "It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone."

• "I restore myself when I'm alone."

• "It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far."

• "I have noticed... that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women."