Marriage Quote by 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 way to an ordinary marriage is the path of least resistance. If you want an extraordinary marriage, you will have to choose it.”

— Justin Davis

“And there is a dignity in people; a solitude; even between husband and wife a gulf; and that one must respect, thought Clarissa, watching…

— Virginia Woolf

“A man with an affectionate disposition, who finds a wife to concur with his fundamental idea of life, easily comes to persuade himself that…

— George Eliot

“Nothing perhaps is so efficacious in preventing men from marrying as the tone in which married women speak of the struggles made in that…

— Anthony Trollope

“Q: Why is it that after they get married, a husband and wife are like two sides of a coin? A: Because although they…

— Various

The principle of plurality of wives never will be done away...

— Heber C. Kimball

“Voilet had told me about wives. In cultures where marriage was practiced, he had said, a woman was allowed to choose the man who…

— Dave Duncan

“Marriage is about two people coming together to share the load, not make one partner feel as if he or she is carrying it…

— H.H. Fowler

“Before any definite step can be taken in a household, there must be either complete division or loving accord between husband and wife.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“Unlike men writers who marry, most will not have the societal equivalent of a wife-- nor (in a society hostile to growing life) anyone…

— Tillie Olsen

“Men live by rules they've made for themselves. And among those rules is one specifying that women are merely commodities for men to possess.…

— Natsuo Kirino