A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
-Anne Taylor Fleming
Quotations
Marriage
A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, in the expectation that the other will do the same.
-Nicholas Sparks
"True Believer"
A woman is not property and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
-Robert A. Heinlein
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
If you both care for each other more than you care for yourself, your marriage will endure all.
-Lisa Tawn Bergren
Oh, of course there's a risk in marrying anybody, but when it's all said and done, there's many a worse thing than a husband.
-L. M. Montgomery
"Anne of Avonlea"
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"
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"
Oh, Lizzy! Do anything rather than marry without affection.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
-Benjamin Franklin
