I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
Quotations
Marriage
Oh, Lizzy! Do anything rather than marry without affection.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
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
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
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.
-Milton Berle
I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
-Mahatma Gandhi
The man may be the head of the household. But the woman is the neck and she can turn the head whichever way she pleases.
-Nia Vardalos
Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.
-Douglas Wilson
