When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-Helen Rowland
Quotations
Marriage
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"
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
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
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
-Oscar Wilde
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Ivan Doig
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"
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst that it inevitably changes.
-Lisa Kleypas
"Love in the Afternoon"
