Remember that children, marriages and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Quotations
Marriage
Oh, Lizzy! Do anything rather than marry without affection.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
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
There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years from the small acorn of passion into a great rooted tree.
-Vita Sackville-West
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Ivan Doig
Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.
-Douglas Wilson
A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
-Anne Lamott "Joe Jones"
Catholics don't believe in divorce. We do believe in murder. There's always Confession, after all.
-Diana Gabaldon
"An Echo in the Bone"
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
-Socrates
