Oh, Lizzy! Do anything rather than marry without affection.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
Quotations
Marriage
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"
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-Helen Rowland
If you both care for each other more than you care for yourself, your marriage will endure all.
-Lisa Tawn Bergren
A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
-Anne Lamott "Joe Jones"
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
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
