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
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate but through being the right mate.
-Barnett R. Brickner
If you get bored with the person you married for love, there's something wrong with you - not with that person.
-Shahrukh Khan
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
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-Ambrose Bierce
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
Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new.
-J. Courtney Sullivan
"Commencement"
Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-Mae West
"The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said"
You'll be happy if you'll remember that men don't change much. Women do. Women adapt themselves, and if you think that means they lose their individuality, you're wrong. Show me a happy marriage and I'll show you a clever woman.
-Elizabeth Cadell
