Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
-Honoré De Balzac
Quotations
Marriage
Remember that children, marriages and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-Helen Rowland
A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
-Anne Lamott "Joe Jones"
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
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
-Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The Scarlet Letter"
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"
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
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
