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"
Quotations
Marriage
Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.
-Douglas Wilson
Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-Mae West
"The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said"
There is a French saying; Love is the dawn of marriage and marriage is the sunset of love.
-De Finod
Remember that children, marriages and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.
-Thomas Fuller
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
Oh, Lizzy! Do anything rather than marry without affection.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
-Benjamin Franklin
