It is not your love that sustains the marriage,
but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Letters and Papers from Prison"
Quotations
Marriage
Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new.
-J. Courtney Sullivan
"Commencement"
An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
-Benjamin Franklin
Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.
-Albert Einstein
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
-Agatha Christie
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
Don’t be jealous if I spend 50% of my time with you and 50% of my time with others, because you get 100% of 50%, while all the others have to share that other 50%. This is the speech I’ve prepared to tell my wife in the future, when I’m spending a majority minus one percent of my time with my clones.
-Jarod Kintz "This Book Has No Title"
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-Ambrose Bierce
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
-Erma Bombeck
