A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
-Anne Taylor Fleming
Quotations
Marriage
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"
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
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
Marriage isn't about Winning - It's about Lasting
-Mark Gorman
Two people can only live as one when each is prepared to give and receive trust and understanding. Above that lies respect. Without respect for how the other feels, no marriage is worthwhile.
-Helen Hollick
"The Kingmaking"
The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.
-Jeffrey Eugenides
"Middlesex"
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
-André Maurois
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Ivan Doig
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
