Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such who are in the institution wish to get out and such as are out wish to get in.(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
I know some good marriages -- marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other.(Erica Jong)
All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.(Ann Landers)
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so jointed that they cannot be separated often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.(Logan Pearsall Smith)
Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.(J. R. R. Tolkien)
Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.(Louis K. Anspacher)
I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.(Jane Austen)
On the breakup of Harrison Ford's first marriage It wasn't because he became a star. In all relationships there are changes and the point is both partners have to change together.(Walter Beakel)
