Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-Anonymous
Quotations
Marriage
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"
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
-Rodney Dangerfield
Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.
-Oscar Wilde
"The Importance of Being Earnest"
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
-André Maurois
In marriage, each partner is to be an encourager rather than a critic; a forgiver rather than a collector of hurts; an enabler rather than a reformer.
-H. Norman Wright
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"
Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.
-Douglas Wilson
