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"
Quotations
Marriage
A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.
-Dave Meurer
Don’t be jealous if I spend 50% of my time with you and 50% of my time with others, because you get 100% of 50%, while all the others have to share that other 50%. This is the speech I’ve prepared to tell my wife in the future, when I’m spending a majority minus one percent of my time with my clones.
-Jarod Kintz "This Book Has No Title"
How can two people love each other, create children together, cohabitation, build a life together, and then end up hating each other in the end.
-Zane
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
-Agatha Christie
Find a woman who makes you feel more alive. She won't make life perfect but she'll make it infinitely more interesting. And then love her with all that's in you.
-Gayle G. Roper
"Shadows on the Sand: A Seaside Mystery"
From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven, and when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, the streams of light flow together and a single brighter light goes forth from that united being.
-Baal Shem Tov
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
-Anne Taylor Fleming
An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
-Benjamin Franklin
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habit and then complain that he's not the man she married?
-Barbra Streisand
