An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
-Benjamin Franklin
Quotations
Marriage
It is not your love that sustains the marriage,
but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Letters and Papers from Prison"
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
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
-Anne Taylor Fleming
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
-G. K. Chesterton
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
-Honoré De Balzac
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
