4. We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. Sam Keen

7. 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

10. There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends. Homer

13. Only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, the other, to let her have it. Lyndon B. Johnson

16. It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. Friedrich Nietzsche

20. The most dangerous food is wedding cake James Thurber

24. Marriage – a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters written in prose. Beverly Nichols

27. After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her. Mark Twain

28. Oct-08 Photos: from a friend