Lasting Love Quotes

"Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century."

Mark Twain

"Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable."

"Love dies only when growth stops."

Pearl S. Buck

"The art of love is largely the art of persistence."

Albert Ellis

"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person."

Mignon McLaughlin

"Happy marriages begin when we marry the one we love, and they blossom when we love the one we married."

Sam Levenson

"Love is like a friendship caught on fire. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable."

"Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision... Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away."

Louis de Bernières

"We got old and got used to each other. We think alike. We read each other's minds. We know what the other wants without asking."

Johnny Cash

"Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be."

Robert Browning

“No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.”

Mark Twain

“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”

Mignon McLaughlin

“Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.”

Simone Signoret

“Respect is the quiet foundation every lasting marriage stands on.”

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“The best marriages are built on friendship that never retired.”

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“Wishing you a love that grows like a banyan tree: deep roots, wide shade and a long, long life.”

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“The first year is learning. The tenth year is understanding. The fiftieth year is pure love.”

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“The best marriages get better with time, like pickle in a jar.”

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

Simone Signoret

“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

“Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, but bears it out even to the edge of doom.”

“Ceasing to be "in love" need not mean ceasing to love.”

“The heart that has truly loved never forgets, but as truly loves on to the close.”

Thomas Moore

“Brief is life, but love is long.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

“Old love does not rust.”

Estonian Proverb