Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-Ambrose Bierce
Quotations
Marriage
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
-André Maurois
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
-Honoré De Balzac
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
Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.
-Hendrik Hertzberg
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
-George Bernard Shaw
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
"Far from the Madding Crowd"
It is not your love that sustains the marriage,
but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Letters and Papers from Prison"
I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he COULD be wicked and WOULDN'T.
-L. M. Montgomery
"Anne of the Island"
Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new.
-J. Courtney Sullivan
"Commencement"
