Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-Anonymous
Quotations
Marriage
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
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"
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-Helen Rowland
My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
-Rodney Dangerfield
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"
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he's finished.
-Zsa Zsa Gabor
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
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
