Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Ivan Doig
Quotations
Marriage
Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.
-Hendrik Hertzberg
An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
-Benjamin Franklin
Oh, of course there's a risk in marrying anybody, but when it's all said and done, there's many a worse thing than a husband.
-L. M. Montgomery
"Anne of Avonlea"
A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
-Anne Lamott "Joe Jones"
He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.
-Thomas Fuller
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"
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
-Honoré De Balzac
