If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
-George Bernard Shaw
Quotations
Marriage
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-Mae West
"The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said"
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
-Rita Rudner
In marriage, each partner is to be an encourager rather than a critic; a forgiver rather than a collector of hurts; an enabler rather than a reformer.
-H. Norman Wright
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
It is not your love that sustains the marriage,
but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Letters and Papers from Prison"
The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
-Gabriel García Márquez
If you both care for each other more than you care for yourself, your marriage will endure all.
-Lisa Tawn Bergren
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate but through being the right mate.
-Barnett R. Brickner
