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 not your love that sustains the marriage,
but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Letters and Papers from Prison"
Marriage was not the combination of two entities into one; it was instead the creation of a third entity whose sole purpose was to soothe and inspire the two individuals.
-Christian Cantrell
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
-Agatha Christie
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
Never forget the nine most important words of any family:
I love you.
You are beautiful.
Please forgive me.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
-Anne Lamott "Joe Jones"
To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
-G. K. Chesterton
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-George Bernard Shaw
