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
A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.
-Milton Berle
If you both care for each other more than you care for yourself, your marriage will endure all.
-Lisa Tawn Bergren
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
-André Maurois
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"
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
