“A girl can wait for the right man to come along but in the meantime that doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones” 
― Cher

“If he can't handle you at your worst then he does not deserve you at your best. Real love means seeing beyond the words spoken out of pain, and instead seeing a person's soul.” 
― Shannon L. Alder

“When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.” 
― Helen Rowland

“I believe it was Shakespeare, or possibly Howard Cosell, who first observed that marriage is very much like a birthday candle, in that 'the flames of passion burn brightest when the wick of intimacy is first ignited by the disposable butane lighter of physical attraction, but sooner or later the heat of familiarity causes the wax of boredom to drip all over the vanilla frosting of novelty and the shredded coconut of romance.' I could not have phrased it better myself.” 
― Dave Barry

“Love is an act of endless forgiveness; a tender look which becomes a habit.” 
― Peter Ustinov

“Finding a life partner is like choosing a bed. You need one as a friend either in times of health or sickness. Freshness or weariness. Happiness or sadness. And we can be certain that we've picked the right one without having to sleep with it first.” 
― Isman H. Suryaman

“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

“Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse.” 
― P.G. Wodehouse