When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.
-Warren Farrell
Quotations
Marriage
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"
My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
-Rodney Dangerfield
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
A woman is not property and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
-Robert A. Heinlein
To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
-G. K. Chesterton
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
Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new.
-J. Courtney Sullivan
"Commencement"
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
-George Bernard Shaw
