When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-Helen Rowland
Quotations
Marriage
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
-George Bernard Shaw
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"
It is not your love that sustains the marriage,
but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Letters and Papers from Prison"
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
-André Maurois
A woman is not property and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
-Robert A. Heinlein
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
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-Ambrose Bierce
Two people can only live as one when each is prepared to give and receive trust and understanding. Above that lies respect. Without respect for how the other feels, no marriage is worthwhile.
-Helen Hollick
"The Kingmaking"
