Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate but through being the right mate.
-Barnett R. Brickner
Quotations
Marriage
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-George Bernard Shaw
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"
Find a woman who makes you feel more alive. She won't make life perfect but she'll make it infinitely more interesting. And then love her with all that's in you.
-Gayle G. Roper
"Shadows on the Sand: A Seaside Mystery"
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
-G. K. Chesterton
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
Oh, Lizzy! Do anything rather than marry without affection.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
