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.
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"
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
He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.
-Thomas Fuller
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
-Honoré De Balzac
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
To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
-G. K. Chesterton
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"
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"
There is a French saying; Love is the dawn of marriage and marriage is the sunset of love.
-De Finod
