Famous Quotes

"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

More quotes about Anniversary

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

  Doug Larson 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

• "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 by W. Somerset Maugham

• "Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth."

• "What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories."

• "Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long."

• "The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger."

• "Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul."