A woman is not property and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
-Robert A. Heinlein
Quotations
Marriage
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Ivan Doig
He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.
-Thomas Fuller
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
-George Bernard Shaw
Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.
-Albert Einstein
A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
-Anne Lamott "Joe Jones"
No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst that it inevitably changes.
-Lisa Kleypas
"Love in the Afternoon"
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
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
It is not your love that sustains the marriage,
but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Letters and Papers from Prison"
