An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
-Benjamin Franklin
Quotations
Marriage
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.
-Douglas Wilson
From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven, and when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, the streams of light flow together and a single brighter light goes forth from that united being.
-Baal Shem Tov
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
-Honoré De Balzac
A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.
-Dave Meurer
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-Ambrose Bierce
Catholics don't believe in divorce. We do believe in murder. There's always Confession, after all.
-Diana Gabaldon
"An Echo in the Bone"
The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.
-Jeffrey Eugenides
"Middlesex"
