There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-Homer
"The Odyssey"
Quotations
Marriage
When a woman thinks her husband is a fool, her marriage is over. They may part in one year or ten; they may live together until death. But if she thinks he is a fool, she will not love him again.
-Philippa Gregory
"The Other Queen"
My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
-Rodney Dangerfield
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
-George Bernard Shaw
An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
-Benjamin Franklin
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"
If you get bored with the person you married for love, there's something wrong with you - not with that person.
-Shahrukh Khan
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"
Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-Mae West
"The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said"
He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.
-Thomas Fuller
