I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
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
"The Scarlet Letter"
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate but through being the right mate.
-Barnett R. Brickner
How can two people love each other, create children together, cohabitation, build a life together, and then end up hating each other in the end.
-Zane
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
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
-Honoré De Balzac
My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
-Rodney Dangerfield
The true love is unconditional.
Marriage is a conditional bond.
-Toba Beta
"My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut"
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, in the expectation that the other will do the same.
-Nicholas Sparks
"True Believer"
