Oh, Lizzy! Do anything rather than marry without affection.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
Quotations
Marriage
I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
-Mahatma Gandhi
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Two people can only live as one when each is prepared to give and receive trust and understanding. Above that lies respect. Without respect for how the other feels, no marriage is worthwhile.
-Helen Hollick
"The Kingmaking"
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"
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
The heart is like a woman and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.
-Peter Kreeft
"Jesus-Shock"
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.
-Douglas Wilson
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
-Anne Taylor Fleming
