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
Don’t be jealous if I spend 50% of my time with you and 50% of my time with others, because you get 100% of 50%, while all the others have to share that other 50%. This is the speech I’ve prepared to tell my wife in the future, when I’m spending a majority minus one percent of my time with my clones.
-Jarod Kintz "This Book Has No Title"
Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.
-Oscar Wilde
"The Importance of Being Earnest"
He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.
-Thomas Fuller
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-Anonymous
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-Sacha Guitry
To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
-G. K. Chesterton
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
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 problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
-Gabriel García Márquez
