Hark! Ye newlywed husbands!

Want to know the secret of a long and happy marriage?

Here's some advice.… 



A Word to Husbands

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 (1902–71)

Source: Ogden Nash. Everyone but Thee and Me (Boston: Little, Brown & Co.,1962).

Pictured: Johnson Antonio, born 1931, Embracing Couple, about 1992, acrylic on carved cottonwood, 13 1/4 x 3 x 3 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Chuck and Jan Rosenak and museum purchase.