Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-Mae West
"The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said"
Quotations
Marriage
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"
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
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Ivan Doig
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
-Gabriel García Márquez
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.
-Henny Youngman
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-Helen Rowland
