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
Marriage isn't about Winning - It's about Lasting
-Mark Gorman
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
A woman is not property and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
-Robert A. Heinlein
He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.
-Thomas Fuller
The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It's followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again.
-Nora Ephron
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
-Honoré De Balzac
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
It is not your love that sustains the marriage,
but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Letters and Papers from Prison"
