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"
Quotations
Marriage
My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
-Rodney Dangerfield
Marriage is more about work than about divine luck, more about finding someone to love than about finding someone to meet your own laundry list of personal needs.
-Mark Gorman
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate but through being the right mate.
-Barnett R. Brickner
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
-Agatha Christie
In marriage, each partner is to be an encourager rather than a critic; a forgiver rather than a collector of hurts; an enabler rather than a reformer.
-H. Norman Wright
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
-Anne Taylor Fleming
Find a woman who makes you feel more alive. She won't make life perfect but she'll make it infinitely more interesting. And then love her with all that's in you.
-Gayle G. Roper
"Shadows on the Sand: A Seaside Mystery"
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
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
