There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
Quotations
Marriage
There is a French saying; Love is the dawn of marriage and marriage is the sunset of love.
-De Finod
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
-George Bernard Shaw
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"
Catholics don't believe in divorce. We do believe in murder. There's always Confession, after all.
-Diana Gabaldon
"An Echo in the Bone"
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-Ambrose Bierce
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate but through being the right mate.
-Barnett R. Brickner
A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
-Anne Lamott "Joe Jones"
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
