If you both care for each other more than you care for yourself, your marriage will endure all.
-Lisa Tawn Bergren
Quotations
Marriage
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
-George Bernard Shaw
Marriage was not the combination of two entities into one; it was instead the creation of a third entity whose sole purpose was to soothe and inspire the two individuals.
-Christian Cantrell
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"
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.
-Douglas Wilson
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"
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
-Erma Bombeck
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
