Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Ivan Doig
Quotations
Marriage
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
-Anne Taylor Fleming
In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
-Lucretia Mott
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
A woman is not property and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
-Robert A. Heinlein
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"
Marriage is more about work than about divine luck, more about finding someone to love than about finding someone to meet your own laundry list of personal needs.
-Mark Gorman
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
-Rita Rudner
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
