Never forget the nine most important words of any family:
I love you.
You are beautiful.
Please forgive me.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Quotations
Marriage
It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession.
-Thomas Hardy
"Far from the Madding Crowd"
In marriage, each partner is to be an encourager rather than a critic; a forgiver rather than a collector of hurts; an enabler rather than a reformer.
-H. Norman Wright
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
-Agatha Christie
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-Mae West
"The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said"
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
Marriage was not the combination of two entities into one; it was instead the creation of a third entity whose sole purpose was to soothe and inspire the two individuals.
-Christian Cantrell
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
