A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
Quotations
Marriage
My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
-Rodney Dangerfield
I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
-Mahatma Gandhi
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
-Agatha Christie
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
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"
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"
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate but through being the right mate.
-Barnett R. Brickner
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
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
