Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.
-Albert Einstein
Quotations
Marriage
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
"Pride and Prejudice"
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 isn't about Winning - It's about Lasting
-Mark Gorman
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
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
Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.
-Hendrik Hertzberg
Remember that children, marriages and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate but through being the right mate.
-Barnett R. Brickner
