If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
Quotations
Marriage
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
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
Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.
-Douglas Wilson
Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new.
-J. Courtney Sullivan
"Commencement"
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
-André Maurois
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Ivan Doig
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-Helen Rowland
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
