If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
Quotations
Marriage
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-Helen Rowland
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.
-Hendrik Hertzberg
If you both care for each other more than you care for yourself, your marriage will endure all.
-Lisa Tawn Bergren
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-Anonymous
Oh, Lizzy! Do anything rather than marry without affection.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, in the expectation that the other will do the same.
-Nicholas Sparks
"True Believer"
