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"
Quotations
Marriage
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habit and then complain that he's not the man she married?
-Barbra Streisand
No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst that it inevitably changes.
-Lisa Kleypas
"Love in the Afternoon"
Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.
-Douglas Wilson
From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven, and when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, the streams of light flow together and a single brighter light goes forth from that united being.
-Baal Shem Tov
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
-Honoré De Balzac
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
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"
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
-George Bernard Shaw
