An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
-Benjamin Franklin
An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
-Benjamin Franklin
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-Ambrose Bierce
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"
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"
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
Two people can only live as one when each is prepared to give and receive trust and understanding. Above that lies respect. Without respect for how the other feels, no marriage is worthwhile.
-Helen Hollick
"The Kingmaking"
Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.
-Oscar Wilde
"The Importance of Being Earnest"
I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
-Mahatma Gandhi
My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
-Rodney Dangerfield