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
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
A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, in the expectation that the other will do the same.
-Nicholas Sparks
"True Believer"
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
-Agatha Christie
To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
-G. K. Chesterton
Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.
-Hendrik Hertzberg
Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new.
-J. Courtney Sullivan
"Commencement"
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
-Rita Rudner
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Oh, of course there's a risk in marrying anybody, but when it's all said and done, there's many a worse thing than a husband.
-L. M. Montgomery
"Anne of Avonlea"
