There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
Quotations
Marriage
He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.
-Thomas Fuller
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"
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-Anonymous
Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.
-Douglas Wilson
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
-George Bernard Shaw
An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
-Benjamin Franklin
Oh, Lizzy! Do anything rather than marry without affection.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It's followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again.
-Nora Ephron
