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"
Quotations
Marriage
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"
My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
-Rodney Dangerfield
There is a French saying; Love is the dawn of marriage and marriage is the sunset of love.
-De Finod
In marriage, everyday you love and everyday you forgive. It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgiveness.
-Bill Moyers
Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.
-Hendrik Hertzberg
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
The heart is like a woman and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.
-Peter Kreeft
"Jesus-Shock"
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
-Honoré De Balzac
Don’t be jealous if I spend 50% of my time with you and 50% of my time with others, because you get 100% of 50%, while all the others have to share that other 50%. This is the speech I’ve prepared to tell my wife in the future, when I’m spending a majority minus one percent of my time with my clones.
-Jarod Kintz "This Book Has No Title"
