Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
Quotations
Marriage
Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.
-Douglas Wilson
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-Helen Rowland
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate but through being the right mate.
-Barnett R. Brickner
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habit and then complain that he's not the man she married?
-Barbra Streisand
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
You'll be happy if you'll remember that men don't change much. Women do. Women adapt themselves, and if you think that means they lose their individuality, you're wrong. Show me a happy marriage and I'll show you a clever woman.
-Elizabeth Cadell
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"
