If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
-George Bernard Shaw
Quotations
Marriage
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
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"
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-Ambrose Bierce
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
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
To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
-G. K. Chesterton
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
Don’t be jealous if I spend 50% of my time with you and 50% of my time with others, because you get 100% of 50%, while all the others have to share that other 50%. This is the speech I’ve prepared to tell my wife in the future, when I’m spending a majority minus one percent of my time with my clones.
-Jarod Kintz "This Book Has No Title"
