I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
Quotations
Marriage
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 isn't about Winning - It's about Lasting
-Mark Gorman
An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
-Benjamin Franklin
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"
Find a woman who makes you feel more alive. She won't make life perfect but she'll make it infinitely more interesting. And then love her with all that's in you.
-Gayle G. Roper
"Shadows on the Sand: A Seaside Mystery"
The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
-Gabriel García Márquez
How can two people love each other, create children together, cohabitation, build a life together, and then end up hating each other in the end.
-Zane
Marriage was not the combination of two entities into one; it was instead the creation of a third entity whose sole purpose was to soothe and inspire the two individuals.
-Christian Cantrell
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
