Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
-George Bernard Shaw
Quotations
Marriage
Don’t be jealous if I spend 50% of my time with you and 50% of my time with others, because you get 100% of 50%, while all the others have to share that other 50%. This is the speech I’ve prepared to tell my wife in the future, when I’m spending a majority minus one percent of my time with my clones.
-Jarod Kintz "This Book Has No Title"
In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
-Lucretia Mott
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
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
Find a woman who makes you feel more alive. She won't make life perfect but she'll make it infinitely more interesting. And then love her with all that's in you.
-Gayle G. Roper
"Shadows on the Sand: A Seaside Mystery"
Remember that children, marriages and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.
-Thomas Fuller
An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
-Benjamin Franklin
A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
-Anne Lamott "Joe Jones"
