He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.
-Thomas Fuller
Quotations
Marriage
Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.
-Albert Einstein
Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.
-Hendrik Hertzberg
Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.
-Douglas Wilson
It is not your love that sustains the marriage,
but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Letters and Papers from Prison"
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
-George Bernard Shaw
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
-Honoré De Balzac
Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-Mae West
"The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said"
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"
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"
