It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-George Bernard Shaw
Quotations
Marriage
In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
-Lucretia Mott
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.
-Thomas Fuller
I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
-Mahatma Gandhi
The man may be the head of the household. But the woman is the neck and she can turn the head whichever way she pleases.
-Nia Vardalos
A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.
-Dave Meurer
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"
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"
