Two people can only live as one when each is prepared to give and receive trust and understanding. Above that lies respect. Without respect for how the other feels, no marriage is worthwhile.
-Helen Hollick
"The Kingmaking"
Quotations
Marriage
Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere.
-Groucho Marx
Some marriages are made in heaven, but they all have to be maintained on earth.
-Debbie Macomber
"Mrs. Miracle"
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-Homer
"The Odyssey"
There is a French saying; Love is the dawn of marriage and marriage is the sunset of love.
-De Finod
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-Ambrose Bierce
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
-George Bernard Shaw
You'll be happy if you'll remember that men don't change much. Women do. Women adapt themselves, and if you think that means they lose their individuality, you're wrong. Show me a happy marriage and I'll show you a clever woman.
-Elizabeth Cadell
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
-Oscar Wilde
