Old Couple Quotes:

To see a young couple loving each other is no wonder; but to see an old couple loving each other is the best sight of all.

- William Makepeace Thackeray

topic: Couple, Sight, Age, Old Couple, Young Couples

When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

- Nora Ephron

source: Nora Ephron (2011). “When Harry Met Sally. . .”, p.97, Knopf

topic: Love, Marriage, Want, My Girlfriend, Worthy Of Love

Two minds with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.

- Jasper Fforde

source: Jasper Fforde (2007). “Thursday Next: First Among Sequels: A Thursday Next Novel”, p.36, Penguin

topic: Love, Romantic, Anniversary, Marriage And Love Inspirational, Marriage Anniversary

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

- Emily Bronte

source: Wuthering Heights ch. 9 (1847)

topic: Love, Anniversary, Romantic, Make Me Feel Special, Marriage And Love Inspirational

I want to try with someone who loves me enough to try with me. I want to grow old looking at the same face every morning. I want to grow old looking at the same face every night at the dinner table. I want to be one of those old couples you see still holding hands and laughing after fifty years of marriage. That's what I want. I want to be someone's forever.

- Rachel Gibson

topic: Morning, Couple, Night, Old Couple, Holding Hands

In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Love, Life, Anniversary, Soulmate Love, Marriage Engagement

I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.

- Liv Tyler

source: "Fictional character: Arwen". "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring", www.imdb.com. 2001.

topic: Love, Cheesy, Age, Romantic Movie Love, Weddings From Movies

I asked you here tonight because when you realise you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

- Graeme Simsion

source: Graeme Simsion (2014). “The Rosie Project: A Novel”, p.267, Simon and Schuster

topic: Love, Cute, Tonight, Marriage And Love Inspirational, Marriage Ceremony

Sometimes you're noodling around with a sketch and something incongruous in the drawing calls forth the caption and other times you think of a line and just have to find a place for it. A cartoon with a caption like "I don't want to live forever, but I sure as hell don't want to be dead forever either" sprang into my head and I just had to find the right venue for it which was an old couple talking to each other.

- Robert Mankoff

source: "Ask the Author Live: Robert Mankoff on the Cartoon Issue". The New Yorker Interview, www.newyorker.com. October 21, 2011.

topic: Couple, Thinking, Talking, Old Couple, Caption

An old couple came running from a motorhome, scribbling as they ran. Their sign read, Can you check on our cat, Ariel? No one would answer that, because the cats had all been eaten.

- Michael Grant

topic: Running, Couple, Cat, Old Couple, Ariel

How it is I know not; but there is no place like a bed for confidential disclosures between friends. Man and wife, they say, there open the very bottom of their souls to each other; and some old couples often lie and chat over old times till nearly morning. Thus, then, in our hearts' honeymoon, lay I and Queequeg - a cosy, loving pair.

- Herman Melville

topic: Morning, Couple, Lying, Honeymoon, Old Couple