An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
-Benjamin Franklin
Quotations
Marriage
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"
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
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"
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
-André Maurois
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
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
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
-Oscar Wilde
A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he's finished.
-Zsa Zsa Gabor
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"
