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
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
-Anne Taylor Fleming
From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven, and when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, the streams of light flow together and a single brighter light goes forth from that united being.
-Baal Shem Tov
You'll be happy if you'll remember that men don't change much. Women do. Women adapt themselves, and if you think that means they lose their individuality, you're wrong. Show me a happy marriage and I'll show you a clever woman.
-Elizabeth Cadell
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
-George Bernard Shaw
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
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"
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
-George Bernard Shaw
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"
No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst that it inevitably changes.
-Lisa Kleypas
"Love in the Afternoon"
