Two people can only live as one when each is prepared to give and receive trust and understanding. Above that lies respect. Without respect for how the other feels, no marriage is worthwhile.
-Helen Hollick
"The Kingmaking"
Quotations
Marriage
Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-Mae West
"The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said"
I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he COULD be wicked and WOULDN'T.
-L. M. Montgomery
"Anne of the Island"
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-Sacha Guitry
Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
-Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The Scarlet Letter"
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
Never forget the nine most important words of any family:
I love you.
You are beautiful.
Please forgive me.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
-Erma Bombeck
