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
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
-Erma Bombeck
I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
-Mahatma Gandhi
No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst that it inevitably changes.
-Lisa Kleypas
"Love in the Afternoon"
Don’t be jealous if I spend 50% of my time with you and 50% of my time with others, because you get 100% of 50%, while all the others have to share that other 50%. This is the speech I’ve prepared to tell my wife in the future, when I’m spending a majority minus one percent of my time with my clones.
-Jarod Kintz "This Book Has No Title"
The true love is unconditional.
Marriage is a conditional bond.
-Toba Beta
"My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut"
A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
-Anne Lamott "Joe Jones"
Marriage was not the combination of two entities into one; it was instead the creation of a third entity whose sole purpose was to soothe and inspire the two individuals.
-Christian Cantrell
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
If you get bored with the person you married for love, there's something wrong with you - not with that person.
-Shahrukh Khan
