An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
-Benjamin Franklin
Quotations
Marriage
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
"The Odyssey"
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
-Honoré De Balzac
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habit and then complain that he's not the man she married?
-Barbra Streisand
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Ivan Doig
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"
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
The man may be the head of the household. But the woman is the neck and she can turn the head whichever way she pleases.
-Nia Vardalos
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"
