There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
Quotations
Marriage
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
-Honoré De Balzac
Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.
-Henny Youngman
In marriage, everyday you love and everyday you forgive. It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgiveness.
-Bill Moyers
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.
-Warren Farrell
A woman is not property and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
-Robert A. Heinlein
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Ivan Doig
There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years from the small acorn of passion into a great rooted tree.
-Vita Sackville-West
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
