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
A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.
-Dave Meurer
If you both care for each other more than you care for yourself, your marriage will endure all.
-Lisa Tawn Bergren
When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.
-Warren Farrell
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
A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
-Anne Lamott "Joe Jones"
To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
-G. K. Chesterton
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
-Anne Taylor Fleming
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"
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
-Honoré De Balzac
