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
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"
A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, in the expectation that the other will do the same.
-Nicholas Sparks
"True Believer"
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
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
-Agatha Christie
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
-Honoré De Balzac
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
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
-Anne Taylor Fleming
