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
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
-George Bernard Shaw
Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.
-Henny Youngman
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
-Erma Bombeck
A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he's finished.
-Zsa Zsa Gabor
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"
