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"
Quotations
Marriage
Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.
-Douglas Wilson
I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
-Mahatma Gandhi
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
-Erma Bombeck
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-Ambrose Bierce
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
If you both care for each other more than you care for yourself, your marriage will endure all.
-Lisa Tawn Bergren
In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
-Lucretia Mott
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
There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years from the small acorn of passion into a great rooted tree.
-Vita Sackville-West
