Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
Quotations
Marriage
My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
-Rodney Dangerfield
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
-George Bernard Shaw
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
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
-Anne Taylor Fleming
It is not your love that sustains the marriage,
but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Letters and Papers from Prison"
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"
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
