Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
-Honoré De Balzac
Quotations
Marriage
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-Ambrose Bierce
The man may be the head of the household. But the woman is the neck and she can turn the head whichever way she pleases.
-Nia Vardalos
Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.
-Oscar Wilde
"The Importance of Being Earnest"
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
Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new.
-J. Courtney Sullivan
"Commencement"
A woman is not property and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
-Robert A. Heinlein
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
-George Bernard Shaw
The heart is like a woman and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.
-Peter Kreeft
"Jesus-Shock"
An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
-Benjamin Franklin
