Marriage is more about work than about divine luck, more about finding someone to love than about finding someone to meet your own laundry list of personal needs.
-Mark Gorman
Quotations
Marriage
In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
-Lucretia Mott
Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.
-Henny Youngman
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
-George Bernard Shaw
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"
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
-Erma Bombeck
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
-André Maurois
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
Catholics don't believe in divorce. We do believe in murder. There's always Confession, after all.
-Diana Gabaldon
"An Echo in the Bone"
A woman is not property and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
-Robert A. Heinlein
