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
Quotations
Marriage
My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
-Rodney Dangerfield
A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, in the expectation that the other will do the same.
-Nicholas Sparks
"True Believer"
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"
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-Ambrose Bierce
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-Anonymous
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-George Bernard Shaw
In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
-Lucretia Mott
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
-André Maurois
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
