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
There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-Homer
"The Odyssey"
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-Sacha Guitry
If he can't handle you at your worst then he does not deserve you at your best. Real love means seeing beyond the words spoken out of pain and instead seeing a person's soul.
-Shannon L. Alder
"300 Questions LDS Couples Should Ask Before marriage"
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-George Bernard Shaw
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"
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
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"
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Ivan Doig
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
