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
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-Helen Rowland
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
The heart is like a woman and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.
-Peter Kreeft
"Jesus-Shock"
My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
-Rodney Dangerfield
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new.
-J. Courtney Sullivan
"Commencement"
Marriage isn't about Winning - It's about Lasting
-Mark Gorman
Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.
-Hendrik Hertzberg
