Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
-George Bernard Shaw
Quotations
Marriage
Marriage was not the combination of two entities into one; it was instead the creation of a third entity whose sole purpose was to soothe and inspire the two individuals.
-Christian Cantrell
It is not your love that sustains the marriage,
but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Letters and Papers from Prison"
An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
-Benjamin Franklin
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-Helen Rowland
From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven, and when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, the streams of light flow together and a single brighter light goes forth from that united being.
-Baal Shem Tov
Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new.
-J. Courtney Sullivan
"Commencement"
Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.
-Hendrik Hertzberg
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
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
