If you both care for each other more than you care for yourself, your marriage will endure all.
-Lisa Tawn Bergren
Quotations
Marriage
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.
-Henny Youngman
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.
-Albert Einstein
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
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
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
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"
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
-Agatha Christie
