Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-Ambrose Bierce
Quotations
Marriage
Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
-Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The Scarlet Letter"
From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven, and when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, the streams of light flow together and a single brighter light goes forth from that united being.
-Baal Shem Tov
If you both care for each other more than you care for yourself, your marriage will endure all.
-Lisa Tawn Bergren
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
The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.
-Jeffrey Eugenides
"Middlesex"
In marriage, everyday you love and everyday you forgive. It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgiveness.
-Bill Moyers
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Ivan Doig
Oh, Lizzy! Do anything rather than marry without affection.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
-Anne Taylor Fleming
