Quotations
Marriage
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
- Henry James
Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.
- Douglas Wilson
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
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
- Honoré De Balzac
There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
- Homer
A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
- Anne Lamott
An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
- Benjamin Franklin
The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It's followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again.
- Nora Ephron
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