Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-Mae West
"The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said"
Quotations
Marriage
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
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"
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
-George Bernard Shaw
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
If you get bored with the person you married for love, there's something wrong with you - not with that person.
-Shahrukh Khan
There is a French saying; Love is the dawn of marriage and marriage is the sunset of love.
-De Finod
A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, in the expectation that the other will do the same.
-Nicholas Sparks
"True Believer"
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
-Honoré De Balzac
