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
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate but through being the right mate.
-Barnett R. Brickner
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
When a woman thinks her husband is a fool, her marriage is over. They may part in one year or ten; they may live together until death. But if she thinks he is a fool, she will not love him again.
-Philippa Gregory
"The Other Queen"
There is a French saying; Love is the dawn of marriage and marriage is the sunset of love.
-De Finod
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-George Bernard Shaw
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
An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
-Benjamin Franklin
A woman is not property and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
-Robert A. Heinlein
