My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
-Rodney Dangerfield
Quotations
Marriage
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-Ambrose Bierce
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
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
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"
An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
-Benjamin Franklin
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
-Anne Taylor Fleming
Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.
-Hendrik Hertzberg
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
Remember that children, marriages and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
