My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
-Rodney Dangerfield
Quotations
Marriage
Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new.
-J. Courtney Sullivan
"Commencement"
To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
-G. K. Chesterton
Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.
-Albert Einstein
Remember that children, marriages and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-Homer
"The Odyssey"
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
-George Bernard Shaw
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
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
