Oh, Lizzy! Do anything rather than marry without affection.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
Quotations
Marriage
If you get bored with the person you married for love, there's something wrong with you - not with that person.
-Shahrukh Khan
A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, in the expectation that the other will do the same.
-Nicholas Sparks
"True Believer"
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
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
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
-Erma Bombeck
