Quotations
Marriage
The man may be the head of the household. But the woman is the neck and she can turn the head whichever way she pleases.
- Nia Vardalos
Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It's followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again.
- Nora Ephron
Marriage was not the combination of two entities into one; it was instead the creation of a third entity whose sole purpose was to soothe and inspire the two individuals.
- Christian Cantrell
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
- Helen Rowland
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
- Socrates
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
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
- Henry James
In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
- Lucretia Mott
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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