Quotations
Marriage
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
- Benjamin Franklin
To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
- G. K. Chesterton
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
- Oscar Wilde
A woman is not property and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
- Robert A. Heinlein
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
- Henry James
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
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
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
Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.
- Hendrik Hertzberg
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
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