He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.
-Thomas Fuller
Quotations
Marriage
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
Never forget the nine most important words of any family:
I love you.
You are beautiful.
Please forgive me.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
-Agatha Christie
To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
-G. K. Chesterton
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
-Honoré De Balzac
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
The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
-Gabriel García Márquez
The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.
-Jeffrey Eugenides
"Middlesex"
A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
-Anne Lamott "Joe Jones"
