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
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habit and then complain that he's not the man she married?
-Barbra Streisand
There is a French saying; Love is the dawn of marriage and marriage is the sunset of love.
-De Finod
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
In marriage, everyday you love and everyday you forgive. It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgiveness.
-Bill Moyers
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-Anonymous
Marriage is more about work than about divine luck, more about finding someone to love than about finding someone to meet your own laundry list of personal needs.
-Mark Gorman
The man may be the head of the household. But the woman is the neck and she can turn the head whichever way she pleases.
-Nia Vardalos
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
-Anne Lamott "Joe Jones"
