Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-Mae West
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Quotations
Marriage
If you both care for each other more than you care for yourself, your marriage will endure all.
-Lisa Tawn Bergren
There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years from the small acorn of passion into a great rooted tree.
-Vita Sackville-West
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-George Bernard Shaw
I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
-Mahatma Gandhi
You'll be happy if you'll remember that men don't change much. Women do. Women adapt themselves, and if you think that means they lose their individuality, you're wrong. Show me a happy marriage and I'll show you a clever woman.
-Elizabeth Cadell
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
-Anne Taylor Fleming
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 is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-Anonymous
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
