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
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
-Anne Taylor Fleming
Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-Mae West
"The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said"
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
Find a woman who makes you feel more alive. She won't make life perfect but she'll make it infinitely more interesting. And then love her with all that's in you.
-Gayle G. Roper
"Shadows on the Sand: A Seaside Mystery"
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
-Agatha Christie
In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
-Lucretia Mott
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
-Oscar Wilde
A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he's finished.
-Zsa Zsa Gabor
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
-Erma Bombeck
