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
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
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
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
-Anne Taylor Fleming
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate but through being the right mate.
-Barnett R. Brickner
If you get bored with the person you married for love, there's something wrong with you - not with that person.
-Shahrukh Khan
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
Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new.
-J. Courtney Sullivan
"Commencement"
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-George Bernard Shaw
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Ivan Doig
