Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
-Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The Scarlet Letter"
Quotations
Marriage
Catholics don't believe in divorce. We do believe in murder. There's always Confession, after all.
-Diana Gabaldon
"An Echo in the Bone"
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
Marriage was not the combination of two entities into one; it was instead the creation of a third entity whose sole purpose was to soothe and inspire the two individuals.
-Christian Cantrell
To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
-G. K. Chesterton
A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
-Anne Lamott "Joe Jones"
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
-Anne Taylor Fleming
A woman is not property and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
-Robert A. Heinlein
There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years from the small acorn of passion into a great rooted tree.
-Vita Sackville-West
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
