From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven, and when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, the streams of light flow together and a single brighter light goes forth from that united being.
-Baal Shem Tov
Quotations
Marriage
Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new.
-J. Courtney Sullivan
"Commencement"
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
-George Bernard Shaw
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Ivan Doig
When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.
-Warren Farrell
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"
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
-Oscar Wilde
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
-Rodney Dangerfield
