Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
-Honoré De Balzac
Quotations
Marriage
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Ivan Doig
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
-Oscar Wilde
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
-Anne Taylor Fleming
Find a woman who makes you feel more alive. She won't make life perfect but she'll make it infinitely more interesting. And then love her with all that's in you.
-Gayle G. Roper
"Shadows on the Sand: A Seaside Mystery"
There is a French saying; Love is the dawn of marriage and marriage is the sunset of love.
-De Finod
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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"
