When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-Helen Rowland
Quotations
Marriage
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
-Agatha Christie
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-George Bernard Shaw
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
-Honoré De Balzac
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
When a woman thinks her husband is a fool, her marriage is over. They may part in one year or ten; they may live together until death. But if she thinks he is a fool, she will not love him again.
-Philippa Gregory
"The Other Queen"
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, in the expectation that the other will do the same.
-Nicholas Sparks
"True Believer"
When in a relationship, a real man doesn't make his woman jealous of others; he makes others jealous of his woman.
-Steve Maraboli
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"
