My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
-Rodney Dangerfield
Quotations
Marriage
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-George Bernard Shaw
When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.
-Warren Farrell
When a woman thinks her husband is a fool, her marriage is over. They may part in one year or ten; they may live together until death. But if she thinks he is a fool, she will not love him again.
-Philippa Gregory
"The Other Queen"
No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst that it inevitably changes.
-Lisa Kleypas
"Love in the Afternoon"
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-Sacha Guitry
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.
-Dave Meurer
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
