Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Ivan Doig
Quotations
Marriage
He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.
-Thomas Fuller
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habit and then complain that he's not the man she married?
-Barbra Streisand
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"
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
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
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
Some marriages are made in heaven, but they all have to be maintained on earth.
-Debbie Macomber
"Mrs. Miracle"
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"
