When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-Helen Rowland
Quotations
Marriage
When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.
-Warren Farrell
In marriage, each partner is to be an encourager rather than a critic; a forgiver rather than a collector of hurts; an enabler rather than a reformer.
-H. Norman Wright
The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.
-Jeffrey Eugenides
"Middlesex"
A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.
-Dave Meurer
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
-George Bernard Shaw
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
-Mahatma Gandhi
Some marriages are made in heaven, but they all have to be maintained on earth.
-Debbie Macomber
"Mrs. Miracle"
