Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.
-Hendrik Hertzberg
Quotations
Marriage
Never forget the nine most important words of any family:
I love you.
You are beautiful.
Please forgive me.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It's followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again.
-Nora Ephron
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-Helen Rowland
To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
-G. K. Chesterton
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-Sacha Guitry
How can two people love each other, create children together, cohabitation, build a life together, and then end up hating each other in the end.
-Zane
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"
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
