Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-Anonymous
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"
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
-George Bernard Shaw
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
My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
-Rodney Dangerfield
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-George Bernard Shaw
In marriage, each partner is to be an encourager rather than a critic; a forgiver rather than a collector of hurts; an enabler rather than a reformer.
-H. Norman Wright
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
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst that it inevitably changes.
-Lisa Kleypas
"Love in the Afternoon"
