Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
Quotations
Marriage
There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-Homer
"The Odyssey"
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-Sacha Guitry
A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he's finished.
-Zsa Zsa Gabor
The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It's followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again.
-Nora Ephron
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 essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.
-Jeffrey Eugenides
"Middlesex"
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
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
