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
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
-George Bernard Shaw
Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.
-Oscar Wilde
"The Importance of Being Earnest"
Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.
-Hendrik Hertzberg
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-Ambrose Bierce
No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst that it inevitably changes.
-Lisa Kleypas
"Love in the Afternoon"
Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
-Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The Scarlet Letter"
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
-Honoré De Balzac
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
If you both care for each other more than you care for yourself, your marriage will endure all.
-Lisa Tawn Bergren
