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"
Quotations
Marriage
From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven, and when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, the streams of light flow together and a single brighter light goes forth from that united being.
-Baal Shem Tov
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-Helen Rowland
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
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
Don’t be jealous if I spend 50% of my time with you and 50% of my time with others, because you get 100% of 50%, while all the others have to share that other 50%. This is the speech I’ve prepared to tell my wife in the future, when I’m spending a majority minus one percent of my time with my clones.
-Jarod Kintz "This Book Has No Title"
To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
-G. K. Chesterton
Marriage isn't about Winning - It's about Lasting
-Mark Gorman
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Never forget the nine most important words of any family:
I love you.
You are beautiful.
Please forgive me.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
