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
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
How can two people love each other, create children together, cohabitation, build a life together, and then end up hating each other in the end.
-Zane
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
-Honoré De Balzac
He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.
-Thomas Fuller
Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-Mae West
"The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said"
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-Ambrose Bierce
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
-Oscar Wilde
Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new.
-J. Courtney Sullivan
"Commencement"
There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-Homer
"The Odyssey"
