It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Quotations
Marriage
In marriage, everyday you love and everyday you forgive. It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgiveness.
-Bill Moyers
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"
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
-Honoré De Balzac
Don’t be jealous if I spend 50% of my time with you and 50% of my time with others, because you get 100% of 50%, while all the others have to share that other 50%. This is the speech I’ve prepared to tell my wife in the future, when I’m spending a majority minus one percent of my time with my clones.
-Jarod Kintz "This Book Has No Title"
An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
-Benjamin Franklin
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
Find a woman who makes you feel more alive. She won't make life perfect but she'll make it infinitely more interesting. And then love her with all that's in you.
-Gayle G. Roper
"Shadows on the Sand: A Seaside Mystery"
Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.
-Douglas Wilson
