Two people can only live as one when each is prepared to give and receive trust and understanding. Above that lies respect. Without respect for how the other feels, no marriage is worthwhile.
-Helen Hollick
"The Kingmaking"
Quotations
Marriage
A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.
-Dave Meurer
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-Anonymous
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.
-Thomas Fuller
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
Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.
-Douglas Wilson
The man may be the head of the household. But the woman is the neck and she can turn the head whichever way she pleases.
-Nia Vardalos
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-Ambrose Bierce
