There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-Homer
"The Odyssey"
Quotations
Marriage
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
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
-George Bernard Shaw
Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-Mae West
"The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said"
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
A woman is not property and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
-Robert A. Heinlein
A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.
-Milton Berle
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
-George Bernard Shaw
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
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-George Bernard Shaw
