When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-Helen Rowland
Quotations
Marriage
A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
-Anne Lamott "Joe Jones"
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst that it inevitably changes.
-Lisa Kleypas
"Love in the Afternoon"
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
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
Oh, Lizzy! Do anything rather than marry without affection.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
-André Maurois
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-Anonymous
