In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
-Lucretia Mott
Quotations
Marriage
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
-Anne Lamott "Joe Jones"
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
-Rodney Dangerfield
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
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
Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.
-Douglas Wilson
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
-George Bernard Shaw
Catholics don't believe in divorce. We do believe in murder. There's always Confession, after all.
-Diana Gabaldon
"An Echo in the Bone"
