Marriage was not the combination of two entities into one; it was instead the creation of a third entity whose sole purpose was to soothe and inspire the two individuals.
-Christian Cantrell
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"
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
The man may be the head of the household. But the woman is the neck and she can turn the head whichever way she pleases.
-Nia Vardalos
An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
-Benjamin Franklin
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he's finished.
-Zsa Zsa Gabor
It is not your love that sustains the marriage,
but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Letters and Papers from Prison"
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate but through being the right mate.
-Barnett R. Brickner
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
