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
Quotations
Marriage
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
-Honoré De Balzac
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
There is a French saying; Love is the dawn of marriage and marriage is the sunset of love.
-De Finod
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"
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
-Socrates
A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.
-Dave Meurer
In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
-Lucretia Mott
