If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
-George Bernard Shaw
Quotations
Marriage
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"
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-Anonymous
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
-Anne Taylor Fleming
A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, in the expectation that the other will do the same.
-Nicholas Sparks
"True Believer"
Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.
-Hendrik Hertzberg
A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.
-Dave Meurer
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
-André Maurois
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-Ambrose Bierce
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
