If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
-George Bernard Shaw
Quotations
Marriage
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
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
Don’t be jealous if I spend 50% of my time with you and 50% of my time with others, because you get 100% of 50%, while all the others have to share that other 50%. This is the speech I’ve prepared to tell my wife in the future, when I’m spending a majority minus one percent of my time with my clones.
-Jarod Kintz "This Book Has No Title"
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-George Bernard Shaw
There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years from the small acorn of passion into a great rooted tree.
-Vita Sackville-West
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-Ambrose Bierce
Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.
-Douglas Wilson
It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession.
-Thomas Hardy
"Far from the Madding Crowd"
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
-Erma Bombeck
