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"
Quotations
Marriage
Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.
-Hendrik Hertzberg
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
-George Bernard Shaw
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
My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
-Rodney Dangerfield
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
-Agatha Christie
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
-Oscar Wilde
When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.
-Warren Farrell
The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
-Gabriel García Márquez
