Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
-Erma Bombeck
Quotations
Marriage
Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.
-Douglas Wilson
Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.
-Hendrik Hertzberg
A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.
-Milton Berle
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
There is a French saying; Love is the dawn of marriage and marriage is the sunset of love.
-De Finod
From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven, and when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, the streams of light flow together and a single brighter light goes forth from that united being.
-Baal Shem Tov
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"
Find a woman who makes you feel more alive. She won't make life perfect but she'll make it infinitely more interesting. And then love her with all that's in you.
-Gayle G. Roper
"Shadows on the Sand: A Seaside Mystery"
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
-George Bernard Shaw
