There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
Quotations
Marriage
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
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
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
-Erma Bombeck
When a woman thinks her husband is a fool, her marriage is over. They may part in one year or ten; they may live together until death. But if she thinks he is a fool, she will not love him again.
-Philippa Gregory
"The Other Queen"
Catholics don't believe in divorce. We do believe in murder. There's always Confession, after all.
-Diana Gabaldon
"An Echo in the Bone"
The heart is like a woman and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.
-Peter Kreeft
"Jesus-Shock"
There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years from the small acorn of passion into a great rooted tree.
-Vita Sackville-West
Marriage is more about work than about divine luck, more about finding someone to love than about finding someone to meet your own laundry list of personal needs.
-Mark Gorman
Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.
-Douglas Wilson
