I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
Quotations
Marriage
What we do for each other before marriage is no indication of what we will do after marriage.
-Gary D. Chapman
"The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate"
To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
-G. K. Chesterton
In marriage, each partner is to be an encourager rather than a critic; a forgiver rather than a collector of hurts; an enabler rather than a reformer.
-H. Norman Wright
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
-Anne Taylor Fleming
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Oh, of course there's a risk in marrying anybody, but when it's all said and done, there's many a worse thing than a husband.
-L. M. Montgomery
"Anne of Avonlea"
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
-Rodney Dangerfield
He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.
-Thomas Fuller
