Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-Anonymous
Quotations
Marriage
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 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
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
-Socrates
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
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Ivan Doig
Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.
-Oscar Wilde
"The Importance of Being Earnest"
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
-André Maurois
