Quotations
Marriage
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
It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession.
- Thomas Hardy
When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.
- Warren Farrell
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
- Jane Austen
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
- Henry James
Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new.
- J. Courtney Sullivan
If he can't handle you at your worst then he does not deserve you at your best. Real love means seeing beyond the words spoken out of pain and instead seeing a person's soul.
- Shannon L. Alder
Oh, of course there's a risk in marrying anybody, but when it's all said and done, there's many a worse thing than a husband.
- L. M. Montgomery
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
- Helen Rowland
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
- Henry David Thoreau
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