My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
-Rodney Dangerfield
Quotations
Marriage
In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
-Lucretia Mott
A woman is not property and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
-Robert A. Heinlein
Find a woman who makes you feel more alive. She won't make life perfect but she'll make it infinitely more interesting. And then love her with all that's in you.
-Gayle G. Roper
"Shadows on the Sand: A Seaside Mystery"
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.
-Douglas Wilson
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-Sacha Guitry
He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.
-Thomas Fuller
The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It's followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again.
-Nora Ephron
