Marriage is more about work than about divine luck, more about finding someone to love than about finding someone to meet your own laundry list of personal needs.
-Mark Gorman
Quotations
Marriage
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"
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
-G. K. Chesterton
When a woman thinks her husband is a fool, her marriage is over. They may part in one year or ten; they may live together until death. But if she thinks he is a fool, she will not love him again.
-Philippa Gregory
"The Other Queen"
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
Catholics don't believe in divorce. We do believe in murder. There's always Confession, after all.
-Diana Gabaldon
"An Echo in the Bone"
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Ivan Doig
If you both care for each other more than you care for yourself, your marriage will endure all.
-Lisa Tawn Bergren
