If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
-George Bernard Shaw
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"
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-Anonymous
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
-Anne Lamott "Joe Jones"
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-Sacha Guitry
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
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.
-Hendrik Hertzberg
