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
Quotations
Marriage
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
-George Bernard Shaw
A woman is not property and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
-Robert A. Heinlein
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
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
I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he COULD be wicked and WOULDN'T.
-L. M. Montgomery
"Anne of the Island"
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
There is a French saying; Love is the dawn of marriage and marriage is the sunset of love.
-De Finod
When a woman thinks her husband is a fool, her marriage is over. They may part in one year or ten; they may live together until death. But if she thinks he is a fool, she will not love him again.
-Philippa Gregory
"The Other Queen"
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
