Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
Quotations
Marriage
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
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
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Never forget the nine most important words of any family:
I love you.
You are beautiful.
Please forgive me.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
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"
How can two people love each other, create children together, cohabitation, build a life together, and then end up hating each other in the end.
-Zane
The heart is like a woman and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.
-Peter Kreeft
"Jesus-Shock"
The man may be the head of the household. But the woman is the neck and she can turn the head whichever way she pleases.
-Nia Vardalos
