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
Quotations
Marriage
My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
-Rodney Dangerfield
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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
There is a French saying; Love is the dawn of marriage and marriage is the sunset of love.
-De Finod
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-Ambrose Bierce
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
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
-George Bernard Shaw
