There isn’t a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own mind, and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own. Warner, Charles Dudley
There is nothing nobler or 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
There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages. La Rochefoucauld, François
This seemed a dreary and wasted life for a girl with fifteen years of straight A’s, but I knew that’s what marriage was like, because cook and clean and wash was just what Buddy Willard’s mother did from morning till night, and she was the wife of a university professor and had been a private […]
Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder. Swift, Jonathan
Wasn’t marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn’t it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears […]
Well-married, a man is winged: ill-matched, he is shackled. Beecher, Harriet Ward
What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please. Ovid
When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs. Wilde, Oscar
When marrying, one should ask oneself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this woman into your old age? Nietzsche, Friedrich
When people get married because they think it’s a long-time love affair, they’ll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity. Campbell, Joseph
Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. Franklin, Benjamin
