A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.
-Dave Meurer
Quotations
Marriage
Some marriages are made in heaven, but they all have to be maintained on earth.
-Debbie Macomber
"Mrs. Miracle"
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
Catholics don't believe in divorce. We do believe in murder. There's always Confession, after all.
-Diana Gabaldon
"An Echo in the Bone"
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"
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-Helen Rowland
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
