Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-Anonymous
Quotations
Marriage
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Ivan Doig
My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
-Rodney Dangerfield
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"
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
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"
Never forget the nine most important words of any family:
I love you.
You are beautiful.
Please forgive me.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
-Oscar Wilde
