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
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
-Erma Bombeck
Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.
-Douglas Wilson
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
-Rita Rudner
I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
-Mahatma Gandhi
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"
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Ivan Doig
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
-George Bernard Shaw
