Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
-Honoré De Balzac
Quotations
Marriage
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
He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.
-Thomas Fuller
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-George Bernard Shaw
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
Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.
-Douglas Wilson
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-Helen Rowland
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"
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
In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
-Lucretia Mott
