Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-Mae West
"The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said"
Quotations
Marriage
An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
-Benjamin Franklin
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"
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"
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
-André Maurois
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate but through being the right mate.
-Barnett R. Brickner
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
-Oscar Wilde
A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
-Anne Lamott "Joe Jones"
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
