An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
-Benjamin Franklin
Quotations
Marriage
No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst that it inevitably changes.
-Lisa Kleypas
"Love in the Afternoon"
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
-Agatha Christie
To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
-G. K. Chesterton
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"
Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-Mae West
"The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said"
It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession.
-Thomas Hardy
"Far from the Madding Crowd"
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"
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
-Oscar Wilde
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-Ambrose Bierce
