If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
Quotations
Marriage
A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.
-Dave Meurer
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
-George Bernard Shaw
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
-Honoré De Balzac
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
-George Bernard Shaw
There is a French saying; Love is the dawn of marriage and marriage is the sunset of love.
-De Finod
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-George Bernard Shaw
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
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"
