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
Quotations
Marriage
A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
-Anne Lamott "Joe Jones"
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
If you both care for each other more than you care for yourself, your marriage will endure all.
-Lisa Tawn Bergren
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession.
-Thomas Hardy
"Far from the Madding Crowd"
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
There is a French saying; Love is the dawn of marriage and marriage is the sunset of love.
-De Finod
There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years from the small acorn of passion into a great rooted tree.
-Vita Sackville-West
Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-Mae West
"The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said"
