If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
-George Bernard Shaw
Quotations
Marriage
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
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"
Marriage is more about work than about divine luck, more about finding someone to love than about finding someone to meet your own laundry list of personal needs.
-Mark Gorman
Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.
-Henny Youngman
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.
-Douglas Wilson
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
-André Maurois
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
