Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
-George Bernard Shaw
Quotations
Marriage
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Ivan Doig
My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
-Rodney Dangerfield
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
Never forget the nine most important words of any family:
I love you.
You are beautiful.
Please forgive me.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.
-Milton Berle
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"
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate but through being the right mate.
-Barnett R. Brickner
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
