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
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-Mae West
"The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said"
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate but through being the right mate.
-Barnett R. Brickner
No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst that it inevitably changes.
-Lisa Kleypas
"Love in the Afternoon"
Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.
-Hendrik Hertzberg
I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he COULD be wicked and WOULDN'T.
-L. M. Montgomery
"Anne of the Island"
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Ivan Doig
I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
-Mahatma Gandhi
