To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
-G. K. Chesterton
To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
-G. K. Chesterton
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"
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
-Agatha Christie
A woman is not property and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
-Robert A. Heinlein
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
-Mahatma Gandhi
Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new.
-J. Courtney Sullivan
"Commencement"
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habit and then complain that he's not the man she married?
-Barbra Streisand
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"
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"