You'll be happy if you'll remember that men don't change much. Women do. Women adapt themselves, and if you think that means they lose their individuality, you're wrong. Show me a happy marriage and I'll show you a clever woman.
-Elizabeth Cadell
Quotations
Marriage
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he's finished.
-Zsa Zsa Gabor
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-Helen Rowland
A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, in the expectation that the other will do the same.
-Nicholas Sparks
"True Believer"
It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession.
-Thomas Hardy
"Far from the Madding Crowd"
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
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
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
-George Bernard Shaw
