A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, in the expectation that the other will do the same.
-Nicholas Sparks
"True Believer"
Quotations
Marriage
Oh, Lizzy! Do anything rather than marry without affection.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
-George Bernard Shaw
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.
-Hendrik Hertzberg
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
-George Bernard Shaw
From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven, and when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, the streams of light flow together and a single brighter light goes forth from that united being.
-Baal Shem Tov
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
-Erma Bombeck
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.
-Jeffrey Eugenides
"Middlesex"
