A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, in the expectation that the other will do the same.
-Nicholas Sparks
"True Believer"
Quotations
Marriage
When in a relationship, a real man doesn't make his woman jealous of others; he makes others jealous of his woman.
-Steve Maraboli
The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
-Gabriel García Márquez
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years from the small acorn of passion into a great rooted tree.
-Vita Sackville-West
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-Anonymous
Marriage is more about work than about divine luck, more about finding someone to love than about finding someone to meet your own laundry list of personal needs.
-Mark Gorman
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
-Oscar Wilde
