Quotations
Marriage
Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
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
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
- George Bernard Shaw
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
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
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
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
- George Bernard Shaw
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
- Michel De Montaigne
Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.
- Douglas Wilson
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
- Honoré De Balzac
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