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"
Quotations
Marriage
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-Sacha Guitry
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
-George Bernard Shaw
What we do for each other before marriage is no indication of what we will do after marriage.
-Gary D. Chapman
"The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate"
He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.
-Thomas Fuller
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-Anonymous
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Ivan Doig
An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
-Benjamin Franklin
