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
Quotations
Marriage
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
My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
-Rodney Dangerfield
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
-Honoré De Balzac
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
Oh, Lizzy! Do anything rather than marry without affection.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
-Erma Bombeck
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
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
