It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
-Socrates
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-Anonymous
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Ivan Doig
From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven, and when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, the streams of light flow together and a single brighter light goes forth from that united being.
-Baal Shem Tov
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-George Bernard Shaw
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"