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"
Quotations
Marriage
The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
-Gabriel García Márquez
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
-Erma Bombeck
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.
-Jeffrey Eugenides
"Middlesex"
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
-George Bernard Shaw
The man may be the head of the household. But the woman is the neck and she can turn the head whichever way she pleases.
-Nia Vardalos
A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.
-Milton Berle
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
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-Helen Rowland
