Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-Mae West
"The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said"
Quotations
Marriage
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"
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
If you both care for each other more than you care for yourself, your marriage will endure all.
-Lisa Tawn Bergren
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
How can two people love each other, create children together, cohabitation, build a life together, and then end up hating each other in the end.
-Zane
Two people can only live as one when each is prepared to give and receive trust and understanding. Above that lies respect. Without respect for how the other feels, no marriage is worthwhile.
-Helen Hollick
"The Kingmaking"
Remember that children, marriages and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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
