In marriage, everyday you love and everyday you forgive. It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgiveness.
-Bill Moyers
Quotations
Marriage
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
-Anne Taylor Fleming
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.
-Henny Youngman
Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.
-Hendrik Hertzberg
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"
The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It's followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again.
-Nora Ephron
Never forget the nine most important words of any family:
I love you.
You are beautiful.
Please forgive me.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.
-Thomas Fuller
