Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.
-Douglas Wilson
Quotations
Marriage
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Catholics don't believe in divorce. We do believe in murder. There's always Confession, after all.
-Diana Gabaldon
"An Echo in the Bone"
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
To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
-G. K. Chesterton
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
-Rodney Dangerfield
A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
-Anne Lamott "Joe Jones"
Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-Mae West
"The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said"
