One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
-Oscar Wilde
Quotations
Marriage
When a woman thinks her husband is a fool, her marriage is over. They may part in one year or ten; they may live together until death. But if she thinks he is a fool, she will not love him again.
-Philippa Gregory
"The Other Queen"
There is a French saying; Love is the dawn of marriage and marriage is the sunset of love.
-De Finod
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-Ambrose Bierce
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new.
-J. Courtney Sullivan
"Commencement"
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
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
-Erma Bombeck
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"
Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.
-Douglas Wilson
