I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
Quotations
Marriage
To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
-G. K. Chesterton
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
-Honoré De Balzac
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
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-Ambrose Bierce
Don’t be jealous if I spend 50% of my time with you and 50% of my time with others, because you get 100% of 50%, while all the others have to share that other 50%. This is the speech I’ve prepared to tell my wife in the future, when I’m spending a majority minus one percent of my time with my clones.
-Jarod Kintz "This Book Has No Title"
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
If you both care for each other more than you care for yourself, your marriage will endure all.
-Lisa Tawn Bergren
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
-George Bernard Shaw
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
-Agatha Christie
