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
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
-Rita Rudner
When a woman thinks her husband is a fool, her marriage is over. They may part in one year or ten; they may live together until death. But if she thinks he is a fool, she will not love him again.
-Philippa Gregory
"The Other Queen"
Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.
-Hendrik Hertzberg
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
Some marriages are made in heaven, but they all have to be maintained on earth.
-Debbie Macomber
"Mrs. Miracle"
The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
-Gabriel García Márquez
There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-Homer
"The Odyssey"
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"
The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.
-Jeffrey Eugenides
"Middlesex"
