There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years from the small acorn of passion into a great rooted tree.
-Vita Sackville-West
Quotations
Marriage
When a woman thinks her husband is a fool, her marriage is over. They may part in one year or ten; they may live together until death. But if she thinks he is a fool, she will not love him again.
-Philippa Gregory
"The Other Queen"
You'll be happy if you'll remember that men don't change much. Women do. Women adapt themselves, and if you think that means they lose their individuality, you're wrong. Show me a happy marriage and I'll show you a clever woman.
-Elizabeth Cadell
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"
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
-George Bernard Shaw
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
-George Bernard Shaw
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
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
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
