A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
-George Bernard Shaw
Quotations
Marriage
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-Helen Rowland
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate but through being the right mate.
-Barnett R. Brickner
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"
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-Sacha Guitry
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
-George Bernard Shaw
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
Remember that children, marriages and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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"
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
