Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
Quotations
Marriage
What we do for each other before marriage is no indication of what we will do after marriage.
-Gary D. Chapman
"The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate"
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
Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new.
-J. Courtney Sullivan
"Commencement"
The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.
-Jeffrey Eugenides
"Middlesex"
An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
-Benjamin Franklin
The heart is like a woman and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.
-Peter Kreeft
"Jesus-Shock"
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.
-Milton Berle
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
