To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
-G. K. Chesterton
Quotations
Marriage
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"
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
-Oscar Wilde
A woman is not property and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
-Robert A. Heinlein
A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
-Anne Lamott "Joe Jones"
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"
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
-George Bernard Shaw
Marriage isn't about Winning - It's about Lasting
-Mark Gorman
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
-George Bernard Shaw
