Remember that children, marriages and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Quotations
Marriage
To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
-G. K. Chesterton
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
-Anne Lamott "Joe Jones"
There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years from the small acorn of passion into a great rooted tree.
-Vita Sackville-West
Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.
-Hendrik Hertzberg
How can two people love each other, create children together, cohabitation, build a life together, and then end up hating each other in the end.
-Zane
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 good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, in the expectation that the other will do the same.
-Nicholas Sparks
"True Believer"
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
