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"
Quotations
Marriage
When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.
-Warren Farrell
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-Anonymous
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-George Bernard Shaw
He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.
-Thomas Fuller
A woman is not property and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
-Robert A. Heinlein
To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
-G. K. Chesterton
There is a French saying; Love is the dawn of marriage and marriage is the sunset of love.
-De Finod
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-Helen Rowland
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
-Agatha Christie
