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"
Quotations
Marriage
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"
An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
-Benjamin Franklin
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"
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
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-George Bernard Shaw
When in a relationship, a real man doesn't make his woman jealous of others; he makes others jealous of his woman.
-Steve Maraboli
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
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"
