In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
-Lucretia Mott
Quotations
Marriage
When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.
-Warren Farrell
Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere.
-Groucho Marx
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
-George Bernard Shaw
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
Oh, Lizzy! Do anything rather than marry without affection.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
-G. K. Chesterton
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
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
