A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
-George Bernard Shaw
Quotations
Marriage
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
The true love is unconditional.
Marriage is a conditional bond.
-Toba Beta
"My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut"
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"
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"
Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere.
-Groucho Marx
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
-André Maurois
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
Some marriages are made in heaven, but they all have to be maintained on earth.
-Debbie Macomber
"Mrs. Miracle"
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
-Honoré De Balzac
