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
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
-George Bernard Shaw
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
Remember that children, marriages and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
When a woman thinks her husband is a fool, her marriage is over. They may part in one year or ten; they may live together until death. But if she thinks he is a fool, she will not love him again.
-Philippa Gregory
"The Other Queen"
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.
-Jeffrey Eugenides
"Middlesex"
There is a French saying; Love is the dawn of marriage and marriage is the sunset of love.
-De Finod
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-Helen Rowland
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
-Agatha Christie
