Quotations
Marriage
Oh, Lizzy! Do anything rather than marry without affection.
- 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
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
Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.
- Henny Youngman
To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
- G. K. Chesterton
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
- George Bernard Shaw
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
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
- Michel De Montaigne
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate but through being the right mate.
- Barnett R. Brickner
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
- Honoré De Balzac
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