My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
-Rodney Dangerfield
Quotations
Marriage
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"
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
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
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-Anonymous
A woman is not property and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
-Robert A. Heinlein
From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven, and when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, the streams of light flow together and a single brighter light goes forth from that united being.
-Baal Shem Tov
If you both care for each other more than you care for yourself, your marriage will endure all.
-Lisa Tawn Bergren
Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new.
-J. Courtney Sullivan
"Commencement"
