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"
Quotations
Marriage
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
-Honoré De Balzac
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
-George Bernard Shaw
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-Anonymous
Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.
-Henny Youngman
Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.
-Douglas Wilson
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-Ambrose Bierce
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"
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
-George Bernard Shaw
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
