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 proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new.
-J. Courtney Sullivan
"Commencement"
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
-Anne Taylor Fleming
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habit and then complain that he's not the man she married?
-Barbra Streisand
There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-Homer
"The Odyssey"
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he COULD be wicked and WOULDN'T.
-L. M. Montgomery
"Anne of the Island"
An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
-Benjamin Franklin
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
-Agatha Christie
