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"
Quotations
Marriage
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"
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 should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.
-Hendrik Hertzberg
He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.
-Thomas Fuller
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
-Agatha Christie
Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere.
-Groucho Marx
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
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
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
-George Bernard Shaw
