He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.
-Thomas Fuller
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"
Two people can only live as one when each is prepared to give and receive trust and understanding. Above that lies respect. Without respect for how the other feels, no marriage is worthwhile.
-Helen Hollick
"The Kingmaking"
Remember that children, marriages and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-Sacha Guitry
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession.
-Thomas Hardy
"Far from the Madding Crowd"
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate but through being the right mate.
-Barnett R. Brickner
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-Ambrose Bierce
