I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
-Mahatma Gandhi
Quotations
Marriage
Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-Mae West
"The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said"
Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.
-Hendrik Hertzberg
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
The heart is like a woman and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.
-Peter Kreeft
"Jesus-Shock"
The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.
-Jeffrey Eugenides
"Middlesex"
Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.
-Albert Einstein
A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.
-Milton Berle
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
-George Bernard Shaw
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
