When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.
-Warren Farrell
Quotations
Marriage
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
Remember that children, marriages and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.
-Jeffrey Eugenides
"Middlesex"
I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
-Mahatma Gandhi
No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst that it inevitably changes.
-Lisa Kleypas
"Love in the Afternoon"
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"
How can two people love each other, create children together, cohabitation, build a life together, and then end up hating each other in the end.
-Zane
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-Ambrose Bierce
There is a French saying; Love is the dawn of marriage and marriage is the sunset of love.
-De Finod
