Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.
-Albert Einstein
Quotations
Marriage
A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, in the expectation that the other will do the same.
-Nicholas Sparks
"True Believer"
Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.
-Hendrik Hertzberg
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
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Never forget the nine most important words of any family:
I love you.
You are beautiful.
Please forgive me.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
-Gabriel García Márquez
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
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
A woman is not property and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
-Robert A. Heinlein
