The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
-Gabriel García Márquez
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"
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
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"
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"
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
-Anne Lamott "Joe Jones"
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
-Agatha Christie
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
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-Helen Rowland
