There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
Quotations
Marriage
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 essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.
-Jeffrey Eugenides
"Middlesex"
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
-George Bernard Shaw
Some marriages are made in heaven, but they all have to be maintained on earth.
-Debbie Macomber
"Mrs. Miracle"
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-Sacha Guitry
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
-Erma Bombeck
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
