When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-Helen Rowland
Quotations
Marriage
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
A woman is not property and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
-Robert A. Heinlein
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
-Agatha Christie
A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.
-Milton Berle
Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.
-Oscar Wilde
"The Importance of Being Earnest"
Never forget the nine most important words of any family:
I love you.
You are beautiful.
Please forgive me.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
