Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
-Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The Scarlet Letter"
Quotations
Marriage
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
-Rita Rudner
If you both care for each other more than you care for yourself, your marriage will endure all.
-Lisa Tawn Bergren
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"
The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It's followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again.
-Nora Ephron
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
-Benjamin Franklin
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
-Anne Taylor Fleming
Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-Mae West
"The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said"
