Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
Quotations
Marriage
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
-Agatha Christie
Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-Mae West
"The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said"
A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.
-Milton Berle
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-Anonymous
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-Helen Rowland
No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst that it inevitably changes.
-Lisa Kleypas
"Love in the Afternoon"
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
