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
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"
A woman is not property and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
-Robert A. Heinlein
A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.
-Milton Berle
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
-George Bernard Shaw
Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere.
-Groucho Marx
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
-André Maurois
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Ivan Doig
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"
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
