You'll be happy if you'll remember that men don't change much. Women do. Women adapt themselves, and if you think that means they lose their individuality, you're wrong. Show me a happy marriage and I'll show you a clever woman.
-Elizabeth Cadell
Quotations
Marriage
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
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"
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
-Erma Bombeck
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
-Agatha Christie
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-Sacha Guitry
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
There is a French saying; Love is the dawn of marriage and marriage is the sunset of love.
-De Finod
A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
-Anne Lamott "Joe Jones"
