Quotations
Marriage
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
- Henry James
You'll be happy if you'll remember that men don't change much. Women do. Women adapt themselves, and if you think that means they lose their individuality, you're wrong. Show me a happy marriage and I'll show you a clever woman.
- Elizabeth Cadell
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
- Jane Austen
A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, in the expectation that the other will do the same.
- Nicholas Sparks
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habit and then complain that he's not the man she married?
- Barbra Streisand
Marriage is more about work than about divine luck, more about finding someone to love than about finding someone to meet your own laundry list of personal needs.
- Mark Gorman
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
- André Maurois
In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
- Lucretia Mott
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
- Ellen Key
Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
- Mae West
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