Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate but through being the right mate.
-Barnett R. Brickner
Quotations
Marriage
Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-Mae West
"The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said"
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
-Socrates
Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
-Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The Scarlet Letter"
Never forget the nine most important words of any family:
I love you.
You are beautiful.
Please forgive me.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.
-Douglas Wilson
He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.
-Thomas Fuller
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
-Honoré De Balzac
A woman is not property and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
-Robert A. Heinlein
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
