Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate but through being the right mate.
-Barnett R. Brickner
Quotations
Marriage
How can two people love each other, create children together, cohabitation, build a life together, and then end up hating each other in the end.
-Zane
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
-George Bernard Shaw
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habit and then complain that he's not the man she married?
-Barbra Streisand
In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
-Lucretia Mott
There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years from the small acorn of passion into a great rooted tree.
-Vita Sackville-West
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
He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.
-Thomas Fuller
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
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"
