I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he COULD be wicked and WOULDN'T.
-L. M. Montgomery
"Anne of the Island"
Quotations
Marriage
An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
-Benjamin Franklin
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
-Oscar Wilde
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-Ambrose Bierce
A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he's finished.
-Zsa Zsa Gabor
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
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"
