I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
Quotations
Marriage
To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
-G. K. Chesterton
The heart is like a woman and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.
-Peter Kreeft
"Jesus-Shock"
The true love is unconditional.
Marriage is a conditional bond.
-Toba Beta
"My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut"
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 romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-Anonymous
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-Ambrose Bierce
Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.
-Hendrik Hertzberg
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"
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
