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

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

—André Maurois

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

—André Maurois

Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.

—André Maurois

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.

—André Maurois

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.

—André Maurois

I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

—Charles Bukowski

Women won't let me stay single and I won't let me stay married.

—Errol Flynn

A husband is like a fire, he goes out when unattended.

—Evan Esar

The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me.

—Howard Nemerov

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

—Mignon McLaughlin