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
No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst that it inevitably changes.
-Lisa Kleypas
"Love in the Afternoon"
A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
-Anne Lamott "Joe Jones"
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
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
Marriage is more about work than about divine luck, more about finding someone to love than about finding someone to meet your own laundry list of personal needs.
-Mark Gorman
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Ivan Doig
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
-George Bernard Shaw
Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.
-Albert Einstein
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
