A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
Quotations
Marriage
The heart is like a woman and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.
-Peter Kreeft
"Jesus-Shock"
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"
He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.
-Thomas Fuller
When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.
-Warren Farrell
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
-Socrates
Remember that children, marriages and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It's followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again.
-Nora Ephron
What we do for each other before marriage is no indication of what we will do after marriage.
-Gary D. Chapman
"The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate"
