If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
-George Bernard Shaw
Quotations
Marriage
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
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
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Ivan Doig
The heart is like a woman and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.
-Peter Kreeft
"Jesus-Shock"
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
-Erma Bombeck
Catholics don't believe in divorce. We do believe in murder. There's always Confession, after all.
-Diana Gabaldon
"An Echo in the Bone"
There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-Homer
"The Odyssey"
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"
