If you both care for each other more than you care for yourself, your marriage will endure all.
-Lisa Tawn Bergren
Quotations
Marriage
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate but through being the right mate.
-Barnett R. Brickner
The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.
-Jeffrey Eugenides
"Middlesex"
Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new.
-J. Courtney Sullivan
"Commencement"
There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years from the small acorn of passion into a great rooted tree.
-Vita Sackville-West
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
-Socrates
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
-George Bernard Shaw
There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-Homer
"The Odyssey"
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
Remember that children, marriages and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
