Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate but through being the right mate.
-Barnett R. Brickner
Quotations
Marriage
An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
-Benjamin Franklin
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
-George Bernard Shaw
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"
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
-George Bernard Shaw
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
-André Maurois
Remember that children, marriages and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
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
