Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
-Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The Scarlet Letter"
Quotations
Marriage
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-Ambrose Bierce
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate but through being the right mate.
-Barnett R. Brickner
Remember that children, marriages and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he's finished.
-Zsa Zsa Gabor
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
-Erma Bombeck
Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.
-Albert Einstein
The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.
-Jeffrey Eugenides
"Middlesex"
Oh, Lizzy! Do anything rather than marry without affection.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
