My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
-Rodney Dangerfield
Quotations
Marriage
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
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"
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
-Honoré De Balzac
A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.
-Milton Berle
Two people can only live as one when each is prepared to give and receive trust and understanding. Above that lies respect. Without respect for how the other feels, no marriage is worthwhile.
-Helen Hollick
"The Kingmaking"
I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
-Mahatma Gandhi
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate but through being the right mate.
-Barnett R. Brickner
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
In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
-Lucretia Mott
