I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
Quotations
Marriage
Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.
-Henny Youngman
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
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"
If you both care for each other more than you care for yourself, your marriage will endure all.
-Lisa Tawn Bergren
I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
-Mahatma Gandhi
Oh, of course there's a risk in marrying anybody, but when it's all said and done, there's many a worse thing than a husband.
-L. M. Montgomery
"Anne of Avonlea"
How can two people love each other, create children together, cohabitation, build a life together, and then end up hating each other in the end.
-Zane
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"
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
