To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
-G. K. Chesterton
Quotations
Marriage
The heart is like a woman and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.
-Peter Kreeft
"Jesus-Shock"
Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.
-Hendrik Hertzberg
There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years from the small acorn of passion into a great rooted tree.
-Vita Sackville-West
He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.
-Thomas Fuller
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
-Agatha Christie
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
Two people can only live as one when each is prepared to give and receive trust and understanding. Above that lies respect. Without respect for how the other feels, no marriage is worthwhile.
-Helen Hollick
"The Kingmaking"
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
