To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
-G. K. Chesterton
Quotations
Marriage
Oh, of course there's a risk in marrying anybody, but when it's all said and done, there's many a worse thing than a husband.
-L. M. Montgomery
"Anne of Avonlea"
In marriage, everyday you love and everyday you forgive. It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgiveness.
-Bill Moyers
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate but through being the right mate.
-Barnett R. Brickner
My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
-Rodney Dangerfield
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.
-Hendrik Hertzberg
There is a French saying; Love is the dawn of marriage and marriage is the sunset of love.
-De Finod
Two people can only live as one when each is prepared to give and receive trust and understanding. Above that lies respect. Without respect for how the other feels, no marriage is worthwhile.
-Helen Hollick
"The Kingmaking"
