Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
-Erma Bombeck
Quotations
Marriage
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
-Anne Taylor Fleming
Two people can only live as one when each is prepared to give and receive trust and understanding. Above that lies respect. Without respect for how the other feels, no marriage is worthwhile.
-Helen Hollick
"The Kingmaking"
To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
-G. K. Chesterton
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 good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
-Anne Lamott "Joe Jones"
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"
Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.
-Hendrik Hertzberg
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
-André Maurois
