The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It's followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again.
-Nora Ephron
Quotations
Marriage
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"
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
-Oscar Wilde
When a woman thinks her husband is a fool, her marriage is over. They may part in one year or ten; they may live together until death. But if she thinks he is a fool, she will not love him again.
-Philippa Gregory
"The Other Queen"
The man may be the head of the household. But the woman is the neck and she can turn the head whichever way she pleases.
-Nia Vardalos
Never forget the nine most important words of any family:
I love you.
You are beautiful.
Please forgive me.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
How can two people love each other, create children together, cohabitation, build a life together, and then end up hating each other in the end.
-Zane
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habit and then complain that he's not the man she married?
-Barbra Streisand
