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
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"
Remember that children, marriages and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
Marriage is more about work than about divine luck, more about finding someone to love than about finding someone to meet your own laundry list of personal needs.
-Mark Gorman
The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
-Gabriel García Márquez
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
-Anne Lamott "Joe Jones"
An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
-Benjamin Franklin
What we do for each other before marriage is no indication of what we will do after marriage.
-Gary D. Chapman
"The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate"
