To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
-G. K. Chesterton
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"
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"
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
There is a French saying; Love is the dawn of marriage and marriage is the sunset of love.
-De Finod
A woman is not property and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
-Robert A. Heinlein
Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new.
-J. Courtney Sullivan
"Commencement"
A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he's finished.
-Zsa Zsa Gabor
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
When in a relationship, a real man doesn't make his woman jealous of others; he makes others jealous of his woman.
-Steve Maraboli
