There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
Quotations
Marriage
Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.
-Oscar Wilde
"The Importance of Being Earnest"
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
-Honoré De Balzac
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Ivan Doig
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"
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
-André Maurois
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
Never forget the nine most important words of any family:
I love you.
You are beautiful.
Please forgive me.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
In marriage, everyday you love and everyday you forgive. It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgiveness.
-Bill Moyers
