It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Quotations
Marriage
He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.
-Thomas Fuller
Marriage is more about work than about divine luck, more about finding someone to love than about finding someone to meet your own laundry list of personal needs.
-Mark Gorman
Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
-Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The Scarlet Letter"
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
-Mahatma Gandhi
I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he COULD be wicked and WOULDN'T.
-L. M. Montgomery
"Anne of the Island"
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"
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate but through being the right mate.
-Barnett R. Brickner
My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
-Rodney Dangerfield
