Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate but through being the right mate.
-Barnett R. Brickner
Quotations
Marriage
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
-Oscar Wilde
To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
-G. K. Chesterton
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
It is not your love that sustains the marriage,
but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Letters and Papers from Prison"
A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.
-Milton Berle
Some marriages are made in heaven, but they all have to be maintained on earth.
-Debbie Macomber
"Mrs. Miracle"
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-Anonymous
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"
