There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
Quotations
Marriage
Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-Mae West
"The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said"
A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he's finished.
-Zsa Zsa Gabor
Oh, of course there's a risk in marrying anybody, but when it's all said and done, there's many a worse thing than a husband.
-L. M. Montgomery
"Anne of Avonlea"
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
-Honoré De Balzac
To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
-G. K. Chesterton
Never forget the nine most important words of any family:
I love you.
You are beautiful.
Please forgive me.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
-Erma Bombeck
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
