An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
-Benjamin Franklin
Quotations
Marriage
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-Sacha Guitry
What we do for each other before marriage is no indication of what we will do after marriage.
-Gary D. Chapman
"The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate"
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Ivan Doig
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
-André Maurois
When a woman thinks her husband is a fool, her marriage is over. They may part in one year or ten; they may live together until death. But if she thinks he is a fool, she will not love him again.
-Philippa Gregory
"The Other Queen"
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"
To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
-G. K. Chesterton
There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years from the small acorn of passion into a great rooted tree.
-Vita Sackville-West
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
