In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
-Lucretia Mott
Quotations
Marriage
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
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-Anonymous
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
There is a French saying; Love is the dawn of marriage and marriage is the sunset of love.
-De Finod
A woman is not property and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
-Robert A. Heinlein
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
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"
He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.
-Thomas Fuller
Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.
-Henny Youngman
