Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-Anonymous
Quotations
Marriage
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
-Socrates
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
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
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.
-Hendrik Hertzberg
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Ivan Doig
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
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
