I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
Quotations
Marriage
You'll be happy if you'll remember that men don't change much. Women do. Women adapt themselves, and if you think that means they lose their individuality, you're wrong. Show me a happy marriage and I'll show you a clever woman.
-Elizabeth Cadell
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"
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
-George Bernard Shaw
In marriage, everyday you love and everyday you forgive. It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgiveness.
-Bill Moyers
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
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
Never forget the nine most important words of any family:
I love you.
You are beautiful.
Please forgive me.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
A woman is not property and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
-Robert A. Heinlein
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
