Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.
-Oscar Wilde
"The Importance of Being Earnest"
Quotations
Marriage
The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.
-Jeffrey Eugenides
"Middlesex"
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
-Rita Rudner
Don’t be jealous if I spend 50% of my time with you and 50% of my time with others, because you get 100% of 50%, while all the others have to share that other 50%. This is the speech I’ve prepared to tell my wife in the future, when I’m spending a majority minus one percent of my time with my clones.
-Jarod Kintz "This Book Has No Title"
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
-Honoré De Balzac
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"
A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.
-Milton Berle
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
-Socrates
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
