Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
-Erma Bombeck
Quotations
Marriage
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
-Agatha Christie
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
-Rita Rudner
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
-Lucretia Mott
Oh, Lizzy! Do anything rather than marry without affection.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
-Socrates
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"
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
