There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
Quotations
Marriage
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
-Socrates
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"
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
-Anne Taylor Fleming
Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.
-Oscar Wilde
"The Importance of Being Earnest"
Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.
-Albert Einstein
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Ivan Doig
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
Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new.
-J. Courtney Sullivan
"Commencement"
To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
-G. K. Chesterton
