Marriage Quote by Meredith Nicholson

It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not…

— Thomas Hardy

“It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not…

— Thomas Hardy

“The ability to feel the presence of one's wife in her absence is indeed one of the greatest blessing a man can achieve!”

— Fahad Basheer

“If you imagine that I have the smallest desire to receive your hand as a reward for having performed a difficult task to your…

— Georgette Heyer

“Is a woman bound to wifely obedience, when the result will be to turn her out of the estate of wife?”

— Hilary Mantel

“I can say in all candor that husbands need wives, and if their wives are simply the “mothers of their children”, they’re likely to…

— Richard E. Greenberg

Wives invariably flourish when deserted; ... it is the deserting male, the reckless idealist rushing about the world seeking a non-existent felicity, who often…

— William McFee

“It is the effect of marriage to engender in several directions some of the reserve it annihilates in one.”

— Thomas Hardy

In the husband wisedome, in the wife gentlenesse. [In the husband wisdom, in the wife gentleness.]

— George Herbert

“A wife is her husband’s richest treasure, a helpmeet, a steadying column. A vineyard with no hedge will be overrun; a man with no…

— Donna Leon

A balance is necessary in life. To achieve this we must move away from broad definitions of workplaces as functional and households as emotional.…

— Eva Cox

“Now I am a wife: my bliss is sobered, but not destroyed; my hopes diminished, but not departed; my fears increased, but notyet thoroughly…

— Anne Brontë