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
There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-Homer
"The Odyssey"
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate but through being the right mate.
-Barnett R. Brickner
Remember that children, marriages and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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 man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-Sacha Guitry
You'll be happy if you'll remember that men don't change much. Women do. Women adapt themselves, and if you think that means they lose their individuality, you're wrong. Show me a happy marriage and I'll show you a clever woman.
-Elizabeth Cadell
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
Marriage was not the combination of two entities into one; it was instead the creation of a third entity whose sole purpose was to soothe and inspire the two individuals.
-Christian Cantrell
