There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
Quotations
Marriage
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
-André Maurois
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"
The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
-Gabriel García Márquez
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
-Honoré De Balzac
In marriage, everyday you love and everyday you forgive. It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgiveness.
-Bill Moyers
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
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-Anonymous
When a woman thinks her husband is a fool, her marriage is over. They may part in one year or ten; they may live together until death. But if she thinks he is a fool, she will not love him again.
-Philippa Gregory
"The Other Queen"
Catholics don't believe in divorce. We do believe in murder. There's always Confession, after all.
-Diana Gabaldon
"An Echo in the Bone"
