When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-Helen Rowland
Quotations
Marriage
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
The heart is like a woman and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.
-Peter Kreeft
"Jesus-Shock"
When a woman thinks her husband is a fool, her marriage is over. They may part in one year or ten; they may live together until death. But if she thinks he is a fool, she will not love him again.
-Philippa Gregory
"The Other Queen"
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
-Anne Taylor Fleming
It is not your love that sustains the marriage,
but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Letters and Papers from Prison"
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"
A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he's finished.
-Zsa Zsa Gabor
Remember that children, marriages and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
