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
The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
-Gabriel García Márquez
When a woman thinks her husband is a fool, her marriage is over. They may part in one year or ten; they may live together until death. But if she thinks he is a fool, she will not love him again.
-Philippa Gregory
"The Other Queen"
Don’t be jealous if I spend 50% of my time with you and 50% of my time with others, because you get 100% of 50%, while all the others have to share that other 50%. This is the speech I’ve prepared to tell my wife in the future, when I’m spending a majority minus one percent of my time with my clones.
-Jarod Kintz "This Book Has No Title"
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
The man may be the head of the household. But the woman is the neck and she can turn the head whichever way she pleases.
-Nia Vardalos
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
-Anne Taylor Fleming
