Some thoughts on marriage:

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage. -George Bernard Shaw

sure, everybody's got a wheelbarrow full of advice - but half of it belongs on the compost heap...

Books and marriage go ill together. -Molière

my husband would strongly agree...he is wary when I read relationship books, and begin conversations with statements like: "OHHH...now I know how all you men feel."

Marriage is the highest state of friendship: If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation. -Samuel Richardson

...IT WAS the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven...