Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-Mae West
"The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said"
Quotations
Marriage
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
Remember that children, marriages and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
-G. K. Chesterton
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
-Oscar Wilde
In marriage, everyday you love and everyday you forgive. It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgiveness.
-Bill Moyers
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst that it inevitably changes.
-Lisa Kleypas
"Love in the Afternoon"
The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.
-Jeffrey Eugenides
"Middlesex"
Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.
-Hendrik Hertzberg
