When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.
-Warren Farrell
Quotations
Marriage
In marriage, each partner is to be an encourager rather than a critic; a forgiver rather than a collector of hurts; an enabler rather than a reformer.
-H. Norman Wright
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
Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.
-Henny Youngman
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-George Bernard Shaw
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
-Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The Scarlet Letter"
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Ivan Doig
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
-Erma Bombeck
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-Helen Rowland
