No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst that it inevitably changes.
-Lisa Kleypas
"Love in the Afternoon"
Quotations
Marriage
When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.
-Warren Farrell
Two people can only live as one when each is prepared to give and receive trust and understanding. Above that lies respect. Without respect for how the other feels, no marriage is worthwhile.
-Helen Hollick
"The Kingmaking"
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
My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
-Rodney Dangerfield
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Ivan Doig
Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere.
-Groucho Marx
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
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"
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
