He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.
-Thomas Fuller
Quotations
Marriage
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habit and then complain that he's not the man she married?
-Barbra Streisand
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"
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
-Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The Scarlet Letter"
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
-Rodney Dangerfield
Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.
-Douglas Wilson
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
-George Bernard Shaw
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
