An edifice that must be rebuilt every day…

Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery.

–Erma Bombeck (1927 – 1996)

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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

–André Maurois (1885 – 1967)

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To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the loving cup, whenever you’re wrong, admit it; whenever you’re right, shut up.

–Ogden Nash (1902 – 1971)

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This one made me laugh:

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.

–Honoré de Balzac (1799 – 18 August 1850)

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This one also made me laugh:

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

–Socrates (470–399 BCE)

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Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.

–Franz Schubert (1797 – 1828)

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The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

–Peter De Vries (1910 – 1993)