When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-Sacha Guitry
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-Sacha Guitry
It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession.
-Thomas Hardy
"Far from the Madding Crowd"
A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.
-Dave Meurer
I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he COULD be wicked and WOULDN'T.
-L. M. Montgomery
"Anne of the Island"
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
Find a woman who makes you feel more alive. She won't make life perfect but she'll make it infinitely more interesting. And then love her with all that's in you.
-Gayle G. Roper
"Shadows on the Sand: A Seaside Mystery"
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
-Anne Taylor Fleming
There is a French saying; Love is the dawn of marriage and marriage is the sunset of love.
-De Finod
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
-Socrates