There is a French saying; Love is the dawn of marriage and marriage is the sunset of love.
-De Finod
Quotations
Marriage
Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.
-Hendrik Hertzberg
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.
-Thomas Fuller
When a woman thinks her husband is a fool, her marriage is over. They may part in one year or ten; they may live together until death. But if she thinks he is a fool, she will not love him again.
-Philippa Gregory
"The Other Queen"
If you both care for each other more than you care for yourself, your marriage will endure all.
-Lisa Tawn Bergren
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
-André Maurois
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-Helen Rowland
Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new.
-J. Courtney Sullivan
"Commencement"
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"
