Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.
-Douglas Wilson
Quotations
Marriage
Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new.
-J. Courtney Sullivan
"Commencement"
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
The true love is unconditional.
Marriage is a conditional bond.
-Toba Beta
"My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut"
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habit and then complain that he's not the man she married?
-Barbra Streisand
I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
-Mahatma Gandhi
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"
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
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"
