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"
Quotations
Marriage
Remember that children, marriages and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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"
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"
To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
-G. K. Chesterton
I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he COULD be wicked and WOULDN'T.
-L. M. Montgomery
"Anne of the Island"
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
-Honoré De Balzac
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
-André Maurois
If you both care for each other more than you care for yourself, your marriage will endure all.
-Lisa Tawn Bergren
