Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate but through being the right mate.
-Barnett R. Brickner
Quotations
Marriage
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
-Anne Taylor Fleming
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"
Oh, of course there's a risk in marrying anybody, but when it's all said and done, there's many a worse thing than a husband.
-L. M. Montgomery
"Anne of Avonlea"
A woman is not property and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
-Robert A. Heinlein
Oh, Lizzy! Do anything rather than marry without affection.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Ivan Doig
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
-Erma Bombeck
I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he COULD be wicked and WOULDN'T.
-L. M. Montgomery
"Anne of the Island"
