One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
-Oscar Wilde
Quotations
Marriage
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-George Bernard Shaw
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
-George Bernard Shaw
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-Mae West
"The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said"
You'll be happy if you'll remember that men don't change much. Women do. Women adapt themselves, and if you think that means they lose their individuality, you're wrong. Show me a happy marriage and I'll show you a clever woman.
-Elizabeth Cadell
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
-George Bernard Shaw
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"
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
-Anne Taylor Fleming
