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
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
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
-George Bernard Shaw
A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he's finished.
-Zsa Zsa Gabor
The man may be the head of the household. But the woman is the neck and she can turn the head whichever way she pleases.
-Nia Vardalos
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"
Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.
-Hendrik Hertzberg
If you both care for each other more than you care for yourself, your marriage will endure all.
-Lisa Tawn Bergren
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"
