If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
-George Bernard Shaw
Quotations
Marriage
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
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-Mae West
"The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said"
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
-Erma Bombeck
To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
-G. K. Chesterton
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
-Anne Taylor Fleming
Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new.
-J. Courtney Sullivan
"Commencement"
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-Ambrose Bierce
