He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.
-Thomas Fuller
Quotations
Marriage
Never forget the nine most important words of any family:
I love you.
You are beautiful.
Please forgive me.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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"
In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
-Lucretia Mott
I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
-Mahatma Gandhi
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
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
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.
-Henny Youngman
