Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-Anonymous
Quotations
Marriage
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"
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
-Honoré De Balzac
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-Sacha Guitry
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
He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.
-Thomas Fuller
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate but through being the right mate.
-Barnett R. Brickner
An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
-Benjamin Franklin
Don’t be jealous if I spend 50% of my time with you and 50% of my time with others, because you get 100% of 50%, while all the others have to share that other 50%. This is the speech I’ve prepared to tell my wife in the future, when I’m spending a majority minus one percent of my time with my clones.
-Jarod Kintz "This Book Has No Title"
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"
