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
Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.
-Oscar Wilde
"The Importance of Being Earnest"
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-Anonymous
Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
-Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The Scarlet Letter"
Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new.
-J. Courtney Sullivan
"Commencement"
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"
Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.
-Douglas Wilson
Marriage isn't about Winning - It's about Lasting
-Mark Gorman
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-Ambrose Bierce
