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
A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.
-Milton Berle
A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
-Anne Lamott "Joe Jones"
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
He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.
-Thomas Fuller
An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
-Benjamin Franklin
It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession.
-Thomas Hardy
"Far from the Madding Crowd"
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
Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.
-Hendrik Hertzberg
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
