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
Quotations
Marriage
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
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"
I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
-Mahatma Gandhi
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
-Benjamin Franklin
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
-Honoré De Balzac
How can two people love each other, create children together, cohabitation, build a life together, and then end up hating each other in the end.
-Zane
From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven, and when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, the streams of light flow together and a single brighter light goes forth from that united being.
-Baal Shem Tov
