A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, in the expectation that the other will do the same.
-Nicholas Sparks
"True Believer"
Quotations
Marriage
Marriage isn't about Winning - It's about Lasting
-Mark Gorman
Find a woman who makes you feel more alive. She won't make life perfect but she'll make it infinitely more interesting. And then love her with all that's in you.
-Gayle G. Roper
"Shadows on the Sand: A Seaside Mystery"
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
-Anne Taylor Fleming
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
-Erma Bombeck
Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.
-Douglas Wilson
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
-Honoré De Balzac
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"
