Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper
rank.
-- Jean De La Bruyère
1645-1696, French
Classical Writer
I hate
work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy
American TV
Character, Married with Children
The
only thing that holds a marriage together is the
husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to
step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker
The
aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery
still clings to America, even outside New England,
and multiple divorce, which looks to the European
like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the
problem of the itch. Love comes into it too, of
course, but in Europe we tend to see marital love as
an eternity which encompasses hate and also
indifference: when we promise to love we really mean
that we promise to honor a contract. Americans,
seeming to take marriage with not enough
seriousness, are really taking love and sex with too
much.
-- Anthony Burgess
1917-1993, British
Writer, Critic
