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
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
Marriage is more about work than about divine luck, more about finding someone to love than about finding someone to meet your own laundry list of personal needs.
-Mark Gorman
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"
I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
-Mahatma Gandhi
There is a French saying; Love is the dawn of marriage and marriage is the sunset of love.
-De Finod
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
-G. K. Chesterton
The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.
-Jeffrey Eugenides
"Middlesex"
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
-Agatha Christie
