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"
Quotations
Marriage
My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
-Rodney Dangerfield
In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
-Lucretia Mott
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
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"
The true love is unconditional.
Marriage is a conditional bond.
-Toba Beta
"My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut"
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
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
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
-Erma Bombeck
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
