A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
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
He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.
-Thomas Fuller
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-Ambrose Bierce
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
-Erma Bombeck
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"
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
There is a French saying; Love is the dawn of marriage and marriage is the sunset of love.
-De Finod
A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, in the expectation that the other will do the same.
-Nicholas Sparks
"True Believer"