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
Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.
-Douglas Wilson
Find a woman who makes you feel more alive. She won't make life perfect but she'll make it infinitely more interesting. And then love her with all that's in you.
-Gayle G. Roper
"Shadows on the Sand: A Seaside Mystery"
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-Ambrose Bierce
In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
-Lucretia Mott
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-Helen Rowland
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
-Honoré De Balzac
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
-Rita Rudner
