If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
-George Bernard Shaw
Quotations
Marriage
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Ivan Doig
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-Helen Rowland
A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, in the expectation that the other will do the same.
-Nicholas Sparks
"True Believer"
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
The man may be the head of the household. But the woman is the neck and she can turn the head whichever way she pleases.
-Nia Vardalos
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
To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
-G. K. Chesterton
