Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.

Now I am married to a man who is a partner and friend. We come from similar backgrounds and share values and interests. It is a continual source of pleasure to talk to him.

I always say about my husband, no matter what what we're going through in life, I would rather hang out with him more than any other person.

Oh, Mama was a smart woman. It takes a smart woman to fall in love with a good man.

I see love developing from friendship. Common ground is a strong basis for friendship. My husband is my best friend and we have a lot in common even though we're admittedly different people. I think it evolves from how I see relationships working. You know, the opposites attract thing happens all the time, but so does the best friends thing. It's just a great kind of relationship in fiction.

A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.

I see a lot of marriages crash and burn around me and my wife. I've always been curious about how hard it is to love well and be loved.

... talk, not sex, constitutes most of the intercourse between a man and his wife.

My wife is my closest friend. Sure, I'm attracted to her in every way possible, but that's not the answer. Because I've been attracted to other people, and I couldn't stand 'em after a while.

Loving isn't liking and it takes liking to live together.

Men of sense, whatever you may choose to say, do not want silly wives.

Probably the most important single element that I found in my own marriage was a sense of humor. My wife had a delicious sense of humor, and I think I have an adequate one.

Men would like monogamy better if it sounded less like monotony.

The loveliest Muse in the world does not feed her owner; these girls make fine mistresses but terrible wives

Love-making is radical, while marriage is conservative.

The more Lord Maccon considered it, the more he grew to like the idea. Certainly his imagination was full of pictures of what he and Alexia might do together once he got her home in a properly wedded state, but now those lusty images were mixing with others: waking up next to her, seeing her across the dining table, discussing science and politics, having her advice on points of pack controversy and BUR difficulties. No doubt she would be useful in verbal frays and social machinations, as long as she was on his side.

Intelligent women always marry fools

There's no healthy life possible without some sensual feeling between the husband and wife, but there's nothing in the world more awful than married life when it's the only common ground.

...but I should say that kindliness, and sincerity, and if I may say so--modesty--are worth far more to a man, to a husband, than all the wit and beauty in the world.

Marriage indeed may qualify the fury of his passion, but it very rarely mends a man's manners.

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vital to partnerships, I could have avoided a lot of sex!

Never argue with your wife about hostility when she's a certified Freudian.