To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
-G. K. Chesterton
Quotations
Marriage
Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.
-Hendrik Hertzberg
There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-Homer
"The Odyssey"
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Ivan Doig
Never forget the nine most important words of any family:
I love you.
You are beautiful.
Please forgive me.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
Oh, Lizzy! Do anything rather than marry without affection.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
You'll be happy if you'll remember that men don't change much. Women do. Women adapt themselves, and if you think that means they lose their individuality, you're wrong. Show me a happy marriage and I'll show you a clever woman.
-Elizabeth Cadell
The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
-Gabriel García Márquez
