If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
-George Bernard Shaw
Quotations
Marriage
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"
If he can't handle you at your worst then he does not deserve you at your best. Real love means seeing beyond the words spoken out of pain and instead seeing a person's soul.
-Shannon L. Alder
"300 Questions LDS Couples Should Ask Before marriage"
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
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-Ambrose Bierce
Oh, of course there's a risk in marrying anybody, but when it's all said and done, there's many a worse thing than a husband.
-L. M. Montgomery
"Anne of Avonlea"
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"
To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
-G. K. Chesterton
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
-Anne Taylor Fleming
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
