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
I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
-Mahatma Gandhi
He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.
-Thomas Fuller
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
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
An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
-Benjamin Franklin
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
-George Bernard Shaw
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-Sacha Guitry
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
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
