An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
-Benjamin Franklin
Quotations
Marriage
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
-Erma Bombeck
Marriage is more about work than about divine luck, more about finding someone to love than about finding someone to meet your own laundry list of personal needs.
-Mark Gorman
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"
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Ivan Doig
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
-André Maurois
Oh, of course there's a risk in marrying anybody, but when it's all said and done, there's many a worse thing than a husband.
-L. M. Montgomery
"Anne of Avonlea"
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
