When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.
-Warren Farrell
Quotations
Marriage
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"
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-Sacha Guitry
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate but through being the right mate.
-Barnett R. Brickner
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
-Anne Taylor Fleming
Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-Mae West
"The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said"
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
-Socrates
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
There is a French saying; Love is the dawn of marriage and marriage is the sunset of love.
-De Finod
