A woman is not property and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
-Robert A. Heinlein
Quotations
Marriage
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"
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"
There is a French saying; Love is the dawn of marriage and marriage is the sunset of love.
-De Finod
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
-Erma Bombeck
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
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"
A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
-Anne Lamott "Joe Jones"
In marriage, everyday you love and everyday you forgive. It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgiveness.
-Bill Moyers
