A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
-André Maurois
Quotations
Marriage
Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.
-Henny Youngman
A woman is not property and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
-Robert A. Heinlein
Oh, Lizzy! Do anything rather than marry without affection.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
Remember that children, marriages and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-Anonymous
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
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
I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
-Mahatma Gandhi
