My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
-Rodney Dangerfield
Quotations
Marriage
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate but through being the right mate.
-Barnett R. Brickner
Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
-Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The Scarlet Letter"
An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
-Benjamin Franklin
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-Ambrose Bierce
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
"Middlesex"
How can two people love each other, create children together, cohabitation, build a life together, and then end up hating each other in the end.
-Zane
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
-George Bernard Shaw
