A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
Quotations
Marriage
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Ivan Doig
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"
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate but through being the right mate.
-Barnett R. Brickner
Two people can only live as one when each is prepared to give and receive trust and understanding. Above that lies respect. Without respect for how the other feels, no marriage is worthwhile.
-Helen Hollick
"The Kingmaking"
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
It is not your love that sustains the marriage,
but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Letters and Papers from Prison"
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
-Rodney Dangerfield
