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
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habit and then complain that he's not the man she married?
-Barbra Streisand
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
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"
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
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"
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
-Agatha Christie
He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.
-Thomas Fuller
