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"
Quotations
Marriage
Remember that children, marriages and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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"
There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-Homer
"The Odyssey"
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate but through being the right mate.
-Barnett R. Brickner
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-Ambrose Bierce
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-George Bernard Shaw
The man may be the head of the household. But the woman is the neck and she can turn the head whichever way she pleases.
-Nia Vardalos
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
-Oscar Wilde
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
