A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
-André Maurois
Quotations
Marriage
Catholics don't believe in divorce. We do believe in murder. There's always Confession, after all.
-Diana Gabaldon
"An Echo in the Bone"
The heart is like a woman and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.
-Peter Kreeft
"Jesus-Shock"
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-Sacha Guitry
There is a French saying; Love is the dawn of marriage and marriage is the sunset of love.
-De Finod
It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession.
-Thomas Hardy
"Far from the Madding Crowd"
Oh, Lizzy! Do anything rather than marry without affection.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.
-Douglas Wilson
Never forget the nine most important words of any family:
I love you.
You are beautiful.
Please forgive me.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
-George Bernard Shaw
