It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-George Bernard Shaw
Quotations
Marriage
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.
-Oscar Wilde
"The Importance of Being Earnest"
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-Sacha Guitry
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.
-Jeffrey Eugenides
"Middlesex"
Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new.
-J. Courtney Sullivan
"Commencement"
What we do for each other before marriage is no indication of what we will do after marriage.
-Gary D. Chapman
"The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate"
