A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
Quotations
Marriage
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"
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere.
-Groucho Marx
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
-George Bernard Shaw
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-Ambrose Bierce
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven, and when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, the streams of light flow together and a single brighter light goes forth from that united being.
-Baal Shem Tov
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
-Agatha Christie
Catholics don't believe in divorce. We do believe in murder. There's always Confession, after all.
-Diana Gabaldon
"An Echo in the Bone"
