A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
-Anne Lamott "Joe Jones"
Quotations
Marriage
-Anne Lamott "Joe Jones"
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-Anonymous
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"
Marriage is more about work than about divine luck, more about finding someone to love than about finding someone to meet your own laundry list of personal needs.
-Mark Gorman
When a woman thinks her husband is a fool, her marriage is over. They may part in one year or ten; they may live together until death. But if she thinks he is a fool, she will not love him again.
-Philippa Gregory
"The Other Queen"
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-Helen Rowland
I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he COULD be wicked and WOULDN'T.
-L. M. Montgomery
"Anne of the Island"
Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new.
-J. Courtney Sullivan
"Commencement"
Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.
-Douglas Wilson
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
