If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
-George Bernard Shaw
Quotations
Marriage
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
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"
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate but through being the right mate.
-Barnett R. Brickner
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-Sacha Guitry
Marriage was not the combination of two entities into one; it was instead the creation of a third entity whose sole purpose was to soothe and inspire the two individuals.
-Christian Cantrell
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
-Erma Bombeck
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
-Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The Scarlet Letter"
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
