The heart is like a woman and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.
-Peter Kreeft
"Jesus-Shock"
Quotations
Marriage
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
-Anne Lamott "Joe Jones"
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"
You'll be happy if you'll remember that men don't change much. Women do. Women adapt themselves, and if you think that means they lose their individuality, you're wrong. Show me a happy marriage and I'll show you a clever woman.
-Elizabeth Cadell
Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere.
-Groucho Marx
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
-George Bernard Shaw
