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"
Quotations
Marriage
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
-Anne Taylor Fleming
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
-Erma Bombeck
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
-Mahatma Gandhi
When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.
-Warren Farrell
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Remember that children, marriages and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he's finished.
-Zsa Zsa Gabor
