To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
-G. K. Chesterton
Quotations
Marriage
An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
-Benjamin Franklin
There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years from the small acorn of passion into a great rooted tree.
-Vita Sackville-West
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
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"
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-Sacha Guitry
A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he's finished.
-Zsa Zsa Gabor
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
-André Maurois
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
-Rita Rudner
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"
