To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
-G. K. Chesterton
Quotations
Marriage
An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
-Benjamin Franklin
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
If you both care for each other more than you care for yourself, your marriage will endure all.
-Lisa Tawn Bergren
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
-Honoré De Balzac
There is a French saying; Love is the dawn of marriage and marriage is the sunset of love.
-De Finod
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"
In marriage, everyday you love and everyday you forgive. It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgiveness.
-Bill Moyers
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
-Anne Taylor Fleming
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"
