To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
-G. K. Chesterton
Quotations
Marriage
In marriage, each partner is to be an encourager rather than a critic; a forgiver rather than a collector of hurts; an enabler rather than a reformer.
-H. Norman Wright
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-Ambrose Bierce
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
-George Bernard Shaw
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
-Honoré De Balzac
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
-Oscar Wilde
There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-Homer
"The Odyssey"
From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven, and when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, the streams of light flow together and a single brighter light goes forth from that united being.
-Baal Shem Tov
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
-Rita Rudner
