My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
-Rodney Dangerfield
Quotations
Marriage
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
-George Bernard Shaw
Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
-Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The Scarlet Letter"
To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
-G. K. Chesterton
The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It's followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again.
-Nora Ephron
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate but through being the right mate.
-Barnett R. Brickner
Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.
-Henny Youngman
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 successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
-André Maurois
A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
-Anne Lamott "Joe Jones"
