An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
-Benjamin Franklin
Quotations
Marriage
A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, in the expectation that the other will do the same.
-Nicholas Sparks
"True Believer"
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
-George Bernard Shaw
How can two people love each other, create children together, cohabitation, build a life together, and then end up hating each other in the end.
-Zane
The heart is like a woman and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.
-Peter Kreeft
"Jesus-Shock"
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst that it inevitably changes.
-Lisa Kleypas
"Love in the Afternoon"
The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
-Gabriel García Márquez
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-George Bernard Shaw
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"
