Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
Quotations
Marriage
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession.
-Thomas Hardy
"Far from the Madding Crowd"
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
Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.
-Douglas Wilson
Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.
-Hendrik Hertzberg
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-Helen Rowland
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-Ambrose Bierce
Marriage isn't about Winning - It's about Lasting
-Mark Gorman
