“The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!”

“No, there are three people in a marriage, there's the woman, there's the man, and there's what I call the third person, the most important, the person who is composed of the man and woman together.”

José Saramago book All the Names

“The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

“Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.”

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

“There's a certain kind of lonely man who rejects love, because he believes that anyone who offers it wouldn't be a lover worth having.”

Gene Wolfe book There Are Doors

“The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.”

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

“What for is marriage? It is to unite a man and a woman to enjoy a natural life with happiness. It is to find solace after hard work. Most of the people do not realize that marriages are for sharing pleasures of the wedded life.”

Periyar E. V. Ramasamy (1879–1973) Tamil politician and social reformer

“The men who declare that woman is the intellectual inferior of man, do not, and cannot, by offering themselves in evidence, substantiate their declaration.”

Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer

“I think that gay marriage is something that should be between a man and a woman.”

Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947) actor, businessman and politician of Austrian-American heritage

“He who does most to cure woman of her weakness, her frivolity and her servility, will likewise at the same stroke do most to cure man of his brutality, his selfishness and his sensuality.”

Frances Power Cobbe (1822–1904) Irish writer, social reformer, anti-vivisection activist and leading suffragette