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
Marriage is more about work than about divine luck, more about finding someone to love than about finding someone to meet your own laundry list of personal needs.
-Mark Gorman
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"
An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
-Benjamin Franklin
If you both care for each other more than you care for yourself, your marriage will endure all.
-Lisa Tawn Bergren
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-Ambrose Bierce
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
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
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
