“ The Dictionary defines Soul Mate as: A person who is perfectly suited to another in temperament. Before I met mine, I didn't know I was bonkers! James Hauenstein
“ Your god, sir, is the World. In my eyes, you, too, if not an infidel, are an idolater. I conceive that you ignorantly worship: in all things you appear to me too superstitious. Sir, your god, your gre… Charlotte Bronte
“ It was a fact generally acknowledged by all but the most contumacious spirits at the beginning of the seventeenth century that woman was the weaker vessel; weaker than man, that is. ... That was the w… Antonia Fraser
“ [Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out. Michel de Montaigne
“ What do you mean, 'Angle of Repose?' she asked me when I dreamed we were talking about Grandmother's life, and I said it was the angle at which a man or woman finally lies down. I suppose it is; and y… Wallace Stegner
“ [In 16th century European society] Marriage was the triumphal arch through which women, almost without exception, had to pass in order to reach the public eye. And after marriage followed, in theory,… Antonia Fraser
“ We ate our liver and spinach while watching the right honorable gentlemen of the British House of Commons yelling at each other about the Iraq invasion on C-SPAN. And it was damned good. It was good b… Julie Powell
“ Wives? she asked, interrupting him. For a moment, he had assumed she was tuning to the novel. Then he saw her waiting, suspicious eyes, so he replied cautiously, None active, as if wives were volcanoe… John le Carre
“ The days were sunny, the nights were star-studded. Indeed married life was strawberries for breakfast and loving all the time. Marabel Morgan
“ There must be some other possibility than death or lifelong penance ... some meeting, some intersection of lines; and some cowardly, hopeful geometer in my brain tells me it is the angle at which two… Wallace Stegner
“ Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse. P.G. Wodehouse
“ The volume of your muscles doesn't make you a good husband. The way you treat her does. Amen Muffler
“ There was altogether too much candor in married life; it was an indelicate modern idea, and frequently led to upsets in a household, if not divorce... Muriel Spark
“ When you live with a woman you learn something every day. So far I have learned that long hair will clog up the shower drain before you can say 'Liquid-Plumr'; Audrey Niffenegger
