I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
Quotations
Marriage
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
-Agatha Christie
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
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
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"
To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
-G. K. Chesterton
I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
-Mahatma Gandhi
A woman is not property and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
-Robert A. Heinlein
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
-Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The Scarlet Letter"
