If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
Quotations
Marriage
A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, in the expectation that the other will do the same.
-Nicholas Sparks
"True Believer"
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate but through being the right mate.
-Barnett R. Brickner
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Ivan Doig
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
-George Bernard Shaw
When a woman thinks her husband is a fool, her marriage is over. They may part in one year or ten; they may live together until death. But if she thinks he is a fool, she will not love him again.
-Philippa Gregory
"The Other Queen"
My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
-Rodney Dangerfield
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
A woman is not property and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
-Robert A. Heinlein
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-Sacha Guitry
