Quotations
Marriage
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
- Benjamin Franklin
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
- Jane Austen
In marriage, each partner is to be an encourager rather than a critic; a forgiver rather than a collector of hurts; an enabler rather than a reformer.
- H. Norman Wright
Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new.
- J. Courtney Sullivan
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
Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.
- Douglas Wilson
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
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
- Ellen Key
To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
- G. K. Chesterton
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