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
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
When in a relationship, a real man doesn't make his woman jealous of others; he makes others jealous of his woman.
-Steve Maraboli
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"
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
-George Bernard Shaw
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-Sacha Guitry
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-Anonymous
The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It's followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again.
-Nora Ephron
Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.
-Hendrik Hertzberg
