I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
Quotations
Marriage
In marriage, each partner is to be an encourager rather than a critic; a forgiver rather than a collector of hurts; an enabler rather than a reformer.
-H. Norman Wright
There is a French saying; Love is the dawn of marriage and marriage is the sunset of love.
-De Finod
He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.
-Thomas Fuller
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
In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
-Lucretia Mott
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
-Agatha Christie
