There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
Quotations
Marriage
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
-Anne Taylor Fleming
Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.
-Hendrik Hertzberg
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"
There is a French saying; Love is the dawn of marriage and marriage is the sunset of love.
-De Finod
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"
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"
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.
-Warren Farrell
