When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-Helen Rowland
Quotations
Marriage
He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.
-Thomas Fuller
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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 man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
-George Bernard Shaw
My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
-Rodney Dangerfield
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
-Honoré De Balzac
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
-André Maurois
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"
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"
