An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
-Benjamin Franklin
An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
-Benjamin Franklin
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
-Anne Taylor Fleming
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-Helen Rowland
It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession.
-Thomas Hardy
"Far from the Madding Crowd"
Oh, Lizzy! Do anything rather than marry without affection.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
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 successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
-André Maurois