If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
Quotations
Marriage
In marriage, each partner is to be an encourager rather than a critic; a forgiver rather than a collector of hurts; an enabler rather than a reformer.
-H. Norman Wright
Never forget the nine most important words of any family:
I love you.
You are beautiful.
Please forgive me.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.
-Thomas Fuller
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"
The heart is like a woman and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.
-Peter Kreeft
"Jesus-Shock"
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
-Erma Bombeck
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-Helen Rowland
My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
-Rodney Dangerfield
