A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
-George Bernard Shaw
Quotations
Marriage
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"
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
Oh, of course there's a risk in marrying anybody, but when it's all said and done, there's many a worse thing than a husband.
-L. M. Montgomery
"Anne of Avonlea"
There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-Homer
"The Odyssey"
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"
Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere.
-Groucho Marx
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habit and then complain that he's not the man she married?
-Barbra Streisand
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
-Oscar Wilde
