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A girl becomes a wife with her eyes wide open. She knows that those sweetest words, 'I take thee to be my wedded husband,' really mean, 'I promise thee to cook three meals a day for 60 years thee will I clean up after thee will I talk to even when thou art not listening thee will I worry about, cry over and take all manner of hurts from.' |
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- Alan Marshall Beck
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A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love. |
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- Pearl Buck
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A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences. |
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- Dave Meurer
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A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possibility that the other may be right, though neither believes it. |
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- Don Fraser
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A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. |
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- Helen Rowland
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A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table. |
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- Jean Kerr
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A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride. |
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- Clive Staples Lewis
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A man's wife has more power over him than the state has. |
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- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing. |
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- Joey Adams
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A second wife is hateful to the children of the first a viper is not more hateful. |
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- Euripides
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