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"
Quotations
Marriage
Catholics don't believe in divorce. We do believe in murder. There's always Confession, after all.
-Diana Gabaldon
"An Echo in the Bone"
A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, in the expectation that the other will do the same.
-Nicholas Sparks
"True Believer"
It is not your love that sustains the marriage,
but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Letters and Papers from Prison"
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
-Honoré De Balzac
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
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
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-Helen Rowland
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
-George Bernard Shaw
A woman is not property and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
-Robert A. Heinlein
