One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
-Oscar Wilde
Quotations
Marriage
Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new.
-J. Courtney Sullivan
"Commencement"
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
-Erma Bombeck
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
-Benjamin Franklin
The heart is like a woman and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.
-Peter Kreeft
"Jesus-Shock"
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
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"
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-Ambrose Bierce
Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.
-Hendrik Hertzberg
