Oh, Lizzy! Do anything rather than marry without affection.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
Quotations
Marriage
Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.
-Hendrik Hertzberg
An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
-Benjamin Franklin
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-Helen Rowland
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
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he's finished.
-Zsa Zsa Gabor
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
-George Bernard Shaw
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, in the expectation that the other will do the same.
-Nicholas Sparks
"True Believer"
