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
A woman is not property and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
-Robert A. Heinlein
No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst that it inevitably changes.
-Lisa Kleypas
"Love in the Afternoon"
Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-Mae West
"The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said"
To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
-G. K. Chesterton
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
-George Bernard Shaw
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
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
-André Maurois
In marriage, everyday you love and everyday you forgive. It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgiveness.
-Bill Moyers
