When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-Sacha Guitry
Quotations
Marriage
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
