Oh, Lizzy! Do anything rather than marry without affection.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
Quotations
Marriage
He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.
-Thomas Fuller
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
-Agatha Christie
A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, in the expectation that the other will do the same.
-Nicholas Sparks
"True Believer"
In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
-Lucretia Mott
Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere.
-Groucho Marx
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate but through being the right mate.
-Barnett R. Brickner
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
-Anne Taylor Fleming
I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
-Mahatma Gandhi
To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
-G. K. Chesterton
