How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering. Beecher, Catharine Esther
I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage. Rogers, Will
I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man. Disraeli, Benjamin
I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all. Byron, Lord
I’ve yet to be on a campus where most women weren’t worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I’ve yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing. Steinem, Gloria
It is so far from being natural for a man and woman to live in a state of marriage, that we find all the motives which they have for remaining in that connection, and the restraints which civilised society imposes to prevent separation, are hardly sufficient to keep them together. Johnson, Samuel
It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make ita failure. Samuel, Herbert
It’s not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband. Euripides
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards. Franklin, Benjamin
Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century. Twain, Mark
Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution. Russell, Bertrand
Marriage is an Athenic weaving together of families, of two souls with their individual fates and destinies, of time and eternity – everyday life married to the timeless mysteries of the soul. Moore, Thomas
