Oh, Lizzy! Do anything rather than marry without affection.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
Oh, Lizzy! Do anything rather than marry without affection.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate but through being the right mate.
-Barnett R. Brickner
Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.
-Hendrik Hertzberg
Find a woman who makes you feel more alive. She won't make life perfect but she'll make it infinitely more interesting. And then love her with all that's in you.
-Gayle G. Roper
"Shadows on the Sand: A Seaside Mystery"
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
-George Bernard Shaw
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
-André Maurois
The heart is like a woman and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.
-Peter Kreeft
"Jesus-Shock"
There is a French saying; Love is the dawn of marriage and marriage is the sunset of love.
-De Finod
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.
-Dave Meurer