My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
-Rodney Dangerfield
Quotations
Marriage
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
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate but through being the right mate.
-Barnett R. Brickner
The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It's followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again.
-Nora Ephron
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
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
-Honoré De Balzac
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
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"
A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.
-Milton Berle
There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years from the small acorn of passion into a great rooted tree.
-Vita Sackville-West
