An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
-Benjamin Franklin
Quotations
Marriage
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
-Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The Scarlet Letter"
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-Anonymous
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
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 nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-Homer
"The Odyssey"
There is a French saying; Love is the dawn of marriage and marriage is the sunset of love.
-De Finod
A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.
-Dave Meurer
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Ivan Doig
