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
Marriage isn't about Winning - It's about Lasting
-Mark Gorman
Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new.
-J. Courtney Sullivan
"Commencement"
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
-Anne Taylor Fleming
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
-George Bernard Shaw
Don’t be jealous if I spend 50% of my time with you and 50% of my time with others, because you get 100% of 50%, while all the others have to share that other 50%. This is the speech I’ve prepared to tell my wife in the future, when I’m spending a majority minus one percent of my time with my clones.
-Jarod Kintz "This Book Has No Title"
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"
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habit and then complain that he's not the man she married?
-Barbra Streisand
In marriage, everyday you love and everyday you forgive. It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgiveness.
-Bill Moyers
