It is not your love that sustains the marriage,
but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Letters and Papers from Prison"
Quotations
Marriage
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
An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
-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
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"
Some marriages are made in heaven, but they all have to be maintained on earth.
-Debbie Macomber
"Mrs. Miracle"
A woman is not property and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
-Robert A. Heinlein
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
-George Bernard Shaw
A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he's finished.
-Zsa Zsa Gabor
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate but through being the right mate.
-Barnett R. Brickner
