Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.
-Oscar Wilde
"The Importance of Being Earnest"
Quotations
Marriage
The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It's followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again.
-Nora Ephron
In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
-Lucretia Mott
Two people can only live as one when each is prepared to give and receive trust and understanding. Above that lies respect. Without respect for how the other feels, no marriage is worthwhile.
-Helen Hollick
"The Kingmaking"
Oh, of course there's a risk in marrying anybody, but when it's all said and done, there's many a worse thing than a husband.
-L. M. Montgomery
"Anne of Avonlea"
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
-Agatha Christie
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.
-Milton Berle
I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
-Mahatma Gandhi
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
