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
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-George Bernard Shaw
Remember that children, marriages and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
Two people can only live as one when each is prepared to give and receive trust and understanding. Above that lies respect. Without respect for how the other feels, no marriage is worthwhile.
-Helen Hollick
"The Kingmaking"
Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.
-Hendrik Hertzberg
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Ivan Doig
He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.
-Thomas Fuller
