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
Quotations
Marriage
There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years from the small acorn of passion into a great rooted tree.
-Vita Sackville-West
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-Anonymous
How can two people love each other, create children together, cohabitation, build a life together, and then end up hating each other in the end.
-Zane
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
-André Maurois
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
-Agatha Christie
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
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"
Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.
-Oscar Wilde
"The Importance of Being Earnest"
Find a woman who makes you feel more alive. She won't make life perfect but she'll make it infinitely more interesting. And then love her with all that's in you.
-Gayle G. Roper
"Shadows on the Sand: A Seaside Mystery"
