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
Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.
-Douglas Wilson
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
-George Bernard Shaw
It is not your love that sustains the marriage,
but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Letters and Papers from Prison"
A woman is not property and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
-Robert A. Heinlein
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
-André Maurois
To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
-G. K. Chesterton
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Find a woman who makes you feel more alive. She won't make life perfect but she'll make it infinitely more interesting. And then love her with all that's in you.
-Gayle G. Roper
"Shadows on the Sand: A Seaside Mystery"
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"
