An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
-Benjamin Franklin
Quotations
Marriage
Oh, Lizzy! Do anything rather than marry without affection.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.
-Albert Einstein
A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
-Anne Lamott "Joe Jones"
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-Ambrose Bierce
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
The man may be the head of the household. But the woman is the neck and she can turn the head whichever way she pleases.
-Nia Vardalos
In marriage, each partner is to be an encourager rather than a critic; a forgiver rather than a collector of hurts; an enabler rather than a reformer.
-H. Norman Wright
