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
It is not your love that sustains the marriage,
but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Letters and Papers from Prison"
Two people can only live as one when each is prepared to give and receive trust and understanding. Above that lies respect. Without respect for how the other feels, no marriage is worthwhile.
-Helen Hollick
"The Kingmaking"
He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.
-Thomas Fuller
There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-Homer
"The Odyssey"
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-George Bernard Shaw
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-Ambrose Bierce
A woman is not property and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
-Robert A. Heinlein
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
