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
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Ivan Doig
Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.
-Henny Youngman
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-Ambrose Bierce
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
-Agatha Christie
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
-Anne Taylor Fleming
A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.
-Dave Meurer
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
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
