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
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"
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate but through being the right mate.
-Barnett R. Brickner
To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
-G. K. Chesterton
A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.
-Dave Meurer
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
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
There is a French saying; Love is the dawn of marriage and marriage is the sunset of love.
-De Finod
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
-Honoré De Balzac
Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-Mae West
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