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
Quotations
Marriage
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"
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
-Anne Taylor Fleming
It is not your love that sustains the marriage,
but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Letters and Papers from Prison"
To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
-G. K. Chesterton
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
-Benjamin Franklin
When a woman thinks her husband is a fool, her marriage is over. They may part in one year or ten; they may live together until death. But if she thinks he is a fool, she will not love him again.
-Philippa Gregory
"The Other Queen"
Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.
-Douglas Wilson
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
