If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
-George Bernard Shaw
Quotations
Marriage
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new.
-J. Courtney Sullivan
"Commencement"
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
-Agatha Christie
A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
-Anne Lamott "Joe Jones"
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
-Socrates
Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.
-Douglas Wilson
Don’t be jealous if I spend 50% of my time with you and 50% of my time with others, because you get 100% of 50%, while all the others have to share that other 50%. This is the speech I’ve prepared to tell my wife in the future, when I’m spending a majority minus one percent of my time with my clones.
-Jarod Kintz "This Book Has No Title"
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"
A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.
-Milton Berle
