He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.
-Thomas Fuller
Quotations
Marriage
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-Ambrose Bierce
Don’t be jealous if I spend 50% of my time with you and 50% of my time with others, because you get 100% of 50%, while all the others have to share that other 50%. This is the speech I’ve prepared to tell my wife in the future, when I’m spending a majority minus one percent of my time with my clones.
-Jarod Kintz "This Book Has No Title"
Marriage is more about work than about divine luck, more about finding someone to love than about finding someone to meet your own laundry list of personal needs.
-Mark Gorman
When a woman thinks her husband is a fool, her marriage is over. They may part in one year or ten; they may live together until death. But if she thinks he is a fool, she will not love him again.
-Philippa Gregory
"The Other Queen"
Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new.
-J. Courtney Sullivan
"Commencement"
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate but through being the right mate.
-Barnett R. Brickner
To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
-G. K. Chesterton
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
-Agatha Christie
