There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-Homer
"The Odyssey"
Quotations
Marriage
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
-George Bernard Shaw
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
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"
An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
-Benjamin Franklin
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
-Erma Bombeck
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
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
-Anne Taylor Fleming
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"
