One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
-Oscar Wilde
Quotations
Marriage
Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.
-Hendrik Hertzberg
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"
The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It's followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again.
-Nora Ephron
I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
-Mahatma Gandhi
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
-André Maurois
There is a French saying; Love is the dawn of marriage and marriage is the sunset of love.
-De Finod
What we do for each other before marriage is no indication of what we will do after marriage.
-Gary D. Chapman
"The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate"
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
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
