Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.
-Douglas Wilson
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"
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
-Anne Lamott "Joe Jones"
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
-Agatha Christie
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-Anonymous
How can two people love each other, create children together, cohabitation, build a life together, and then end up hating each other in the end.
-Zane
In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
-Lucretia Mott
Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
-Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The Scarlet Letter"
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
-George Bernard Shaw
