When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-Helen Rowland
Quotations
Marriage
The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It's followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again.
-Nora Ephron
The man may be the head of the household. But the woman is the neck and she can turn the head whichever way she pleases.
-Nia Vardalos
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-Sacha Guitry
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
-George Bernard Shaw
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
A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.
-Milton Berle
