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
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.
-Hendrik Hertzberg
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
A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.
-Milton Berle
Oh, Lizzy! Do anything rather than marry without affection.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
In marriage, each partner is to be an encourager rather than a critic; a forgiver rather than a collector of hurts; an enabler rather than a reformer.
-H. Norman Wright
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-Ambrose Bierce
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession.
-Thomas Hardy
"Far from the Madding Crowd"
