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
Quotations
Marriage
Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere.
-Groucho Marx
In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
-Lucretia Mott
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
-Anne Lamott "Joe Jones"
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
-André Maurois
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
-Rita Rudner
The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.
-Jeffrey Eugenides
"Middlesex"
Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-Mae West
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