Oh, Lizzy! Do anything rather than marry without affection.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
Quotations
Marriage
A woman is not property and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
-Robert A. Heinlein
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate but through being the right mate.
-Barnett R. Brickner
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 successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
-André Maurois
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-Anonymous
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-Helen Rowland
If you both care for each other more than you care for yourself, your marriage will endure all.
-Lisa Tawn Bergren
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-George Bernard Shaw
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
-Anne Taylor Fleming
