When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-Sacha Guitry
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"
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"
Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-Mae West
"The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said"
My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
-Rodney Dangerfield
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
-Agatha Christie
I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
-Mahatma Gandhi
A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, in the expectation that the other will do the same.
-Nicholas Sparks
"True Believer"
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"
If you get bored with the person you married for love, there's something wrong with you - not with that person.
-Shahrukh Khan
