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
The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It's followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again.
-Nora Ephron
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-Sacha Guitry
You'll be happy if you'll remember that men don't change much. Women do. Women adapt themselves, and if you think that means they lose their individuality, you're wrong. Show me a happy marriage and I'll show you a clever woman.
-Elizabeth Cadell
When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.
-Warren Farrell
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
-George Bernard Shaw
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
A woman is not property and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
-Robert A. Heinlein
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"
