Remember that children, marriages and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Quotations
Marriage
Marriage is more about work than about divine luck, more about finding someone to love than about finding someone to meet your own laundry list of personal needs.
-Mark Gorman
Never forget the nine most important words of any family:
I love you.
You are beautiful.
Please forgive me.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
-George Bernard Shaw
It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession.
-Thomas Hardy
"Far from the Madding Crowd"
If you both care for each other more than you care for yourself, your marriage will endure all.
-Lisa Tawn Bergren
An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
-Benjamin Franklin
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate but through being the right mate.
-Barnett R. Brickner
A woman is not property and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
-Robert A. Heinlein
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
