Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
-Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The Scarlet Letter"
Quotations
Marriage
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Ivan Doig
From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven, and when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, the streams of light flow together and a single brighter light goes forth from that united being.
-Baal Shem Tov
When a woman thinks her husband is a fool, her marriage is over. They may part in one year or ten; they may live together until death. But if she thinks he is a fool, she will not love him again.
-Philippa Gregory
"The Other Queen"
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-Ambrose Bierce
A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he's finished.
-Zsa Zsa Gabor
Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.
-Hendrik Hertzberg
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"
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"
