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
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-Anonymous
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
-Erma Bombeck
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"
I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he COULD be wicked and WOULDN'T.
-L. M. Montgomery
"Anne of the Island"
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
-Rita Rudner
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
-Oscar Wilde
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
-André Maurois
It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession.
-Thomas Hardy
"Far from the Madding Crowd"
There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-Homer
"The Odyssey"
