An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
-Agatha Christie
Quotations
Marriage
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession.
-Thomas Hardy
"Far from the Madding Crowd"
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"
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
When a woman thinks her husband is a fool, her marriage is over. They may part in one year or ten; they may live together until death. But if she thinks he is a fool, she will not love him again.
-Philippa Gregory
"The Other Queen"
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-George Bernard Shaw
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
-Anne Taylor Fleming
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"
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
