A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
-André Maurois
Quotations
Marriage
Never forget the nine most important words of any family:
I love you.
You are beautiful.
Please forgive me.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
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
It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession.
-Thomas Hardy
"Far from the Madding Crowd"
My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
-Rodney Dangerfield
The true love is unconditional.
Marriage is a conditional bond.
-Toba Beta
"My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut"
If you both care for each other more than you care for yourself, your marriage will endure all.
-Lisa Tawn Bergren
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
-Honoré De Balzac
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"
