Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
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
Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.
-Douglas Wilson
Oh, Lizzy! Do anything rather than marry without affection.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-Helen Rowland
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
-Erma Bombeck
Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
-Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The Scarlet Letter"
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
To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
-G. K. Chesterton
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
