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
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
-André Maurois
In marriage, each partner is to be an encourager rather than a critic; a forgiver rather than a collector of hurts; an enabler rather than a reformer.
-H. Norman Wright
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
-George Bernard Shaw
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
-Socrates
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"
There is a French saying; Love is the dawn of marriage and marriage is the sunset of love.
-De Finod
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
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
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
