An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
-Benjamin Franklin
Quotations
Marriage
Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-Mae West
"The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said"
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"
A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.
-Dave Meurer
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-Helen Rowland
A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.
-Milton Berle
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
-Agatha Christie
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
Catholics don't believe in divorce. We do believe in murder. There's always Confession, after all.
-Diana Gabaldon
"An Echo in the Bone"
