Oh, Lizzy! Do anything rather than marry without affection.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
Quotations
Marriage
How can two people love each other, create children together, cohabitation, build a life together, and then end up hating each other in the end.
-Zane
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
My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
-Rodney Dangerfield
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
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
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
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
-Anne Lamott "Joe Jones"
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
