Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.
-Douglas Wilson
Quotations
Marriage
A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.
-Milton Berle
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"
Don’t be jealous if I spend 50% of my time with you and 50% of my time with others, because you get 100% of 50%, while all the others have to share that other 50%. This is the speech I’ve prepared to tell my wife in the future, when I’m spending a majority minus one percent of my time with my clones.
-Jarod Kintz "This Book Has No Title"
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
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"
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.
-Oscar Wilde
"The Importance of Being Earnest"
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
