Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-Anonymous
Quotations
Marriage
Some marriages are made in heaven, but they all have to be maintained on earth.
-Debbie Macomber
"Mrs. Miracle"
The true love is unconditional.
Marriage is a conditional bond.
-Toba Beta
"My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut"
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate but through being the right mate.
-Barnett R. Brickner
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"
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-Helen Rowland
Don’t be jealous if I spend 50% of my time with you and 50% of my time with others, because you get 100% of 50%, while all the others have to share that other 50%. This is the speech I’ve prepared to tell my wife in the future, when I’m spending a majority minus one percent of my time with my clones.
-Jarod Kintz "This Book Has No Title"
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"
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
-G. K. Chesterton
