To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
-G. K. Chesterton
Quotations
Marriage
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
-Honoré De Balzac
When a woman thinks her husband is a fool, her marriage is over. They may part in one year or ten; they may live together until death. But if she thinks he is a fool, she will not love him again.
-Philippa Gregory
"The Other Queen"
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habit and then complain that he's not the man she married?
-Barbra Streisand
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"
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-Ambrose Bierce
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
-George Bernard Shaw
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
