Oh, Lizzy! Do anything rather than marry without affection.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
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"
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
-Rita Rudner
Some marriages are made in heaven, but they all have to be maintained on earth.
-Debbie Macomber
"Mrs. Miracle"
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
-Mahatma Gandhi
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
The heart is like a woman and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.
-Peter Kreeft
"Jesus-Shock"
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
-André Maurois
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
