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 wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.
-Milton Berle
The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It's followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again.
-Nora Ephron
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"
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
-George Bernard Shaw
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
When in a relationship, a real man doesn't make his woman jealous of others; he makes others jealous of his woman.
-Steve Maraboli
Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.
-Hendrik Hertzberg
Catholics don't believe in divorce. We do believe in murder. There's always Confession, after all.
-Diana Gabaldon
"An Echo in the Bone"
