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
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"
If you get bored with the person you married for love, there's something wrong with you - not with that person.
-Shahrukh Khan
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
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
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
What we do for each other before marriage is no indication of what we will do after marriage.
-Gary D. Chapman
"The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate"
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
-George Bernard Shaw
There is a French saying; Love is the dawn of marriage and marriage is the sunset of love.
-De Finod
In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
-Lucretia Mott
