An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
-Agatha Christie
Quotations
Marriage
Never forget the nine most important words of any family:
I love you.
You are beautiful.
Please forgive me.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.
-Douglas Wilson
A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
-Anne Lamott "Joe Jones"
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"
A woman is not property and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
-Robert A. Heinlein
To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
-G. K. Chesterton
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"
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Ivan Doig
