An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
-Benjamin Franklin
Quotations
Marriage
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
-Honoré De Balzac
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
-Rita Rudner
Oh, Lizzy! Do anything rather than marry without affection.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
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
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 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"
To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
-G. K. Chesterton
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-Ambrose Bierce
