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
Quotations
Marriage
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"
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"
The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
-Gabriel García Márquez
Oh, Lizzy! Do anything rather than marry without affection.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
-Oscar Wilde
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
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"
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
-George Bernard Shaw
