A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
-Anne Taylor Fleming
Quotations
Marriage
From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven, and when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, the streams of light flow together and a single brighter light goes forth from that united being.
-Baal Shem Tov
I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
-Mahatma Gandhi
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
-Honoré De Balzac
A woman is not property and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
-Robert A. Heinlein
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst that it inevitably changes.
-Lisa Kleypas
"Love in the Afternoon"
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
-Agatha Christie
In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
-Lucretia Mott
