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
The heart is like a woman and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.
-Peter Kreeft
"Jesus-Shock"
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-Sacha Guitry
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Ivan Doig
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
-Anne Lamott "Joe Jones"
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
-Honoré De Balzac
I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
-Mahatma Gandhi
My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
-Rodney Dangerfield
