"The Japanese have a word for it. It's judo-the art of conquering by yielding. The Western equivalent of judo is, 'Yes,dear'."
-J.P.McEvoy

"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 prostituion." -Bertrand Russell

"Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them." -Sydney Smith

"Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover the truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames."
-Thomas Moore

"This seemed a dreary and wasted life for a girl with fifteen years of straight A's, but I knew that's what marriage was like, because cook and clean and wash was just what Buddy Willard's mother did from morning till night, and she was the wife of a University professor and had been a private school teacher herself."
-Sylvia Plath

"Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures."
-Samuel Johnson

"The married man is like the bee that fixes his hive, augments the world, benefits the republic, and by daily diligence, without wronging any, profits all; but he who contemns wedlock, like a wasp, wanders an offense in the world, lives upon spoil, disturbs peace, steals sweets that are non of his own, and meets misery as his just reward."
-Feltham

"Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins."
-Langdon Mitchell

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