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"
Quotations
Marriage
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
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"
When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.
-Warren Farrell
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
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate but through being the right mate.
-Barnett R. Brickner
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-Helen Rowland
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habit and then complain that he's not the man she married?
-Barbra Streisand
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere.
-Groucho Marx
