Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-Anonymous
Quotations
Marriage
Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere.
-Groucho Marx
Oh, Lizzy! Do anything rather than marry without affection.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-Ambrose Bierce
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"
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-George Bernard Shaw
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
-Anne Taylor Fleming
Find a woman who makes you feel more alive. She won't make life perfect but she'll make it infinitely more interesting. And then love her with all that's in you.
-Gayle G. Roper
"Shadows on the Sand: A Seaside Mystery"
A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.
-Dave Meurer
