Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
Quotations
Marriage
Some marriages are made in heaven, but they all have to be maintained on earth.
-Debbie Macomber
"Mrs. Miracle"
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
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
Don’t be jealous if I spend 50% of my time with you and 50% of my time with others, because you get 100% of 50%, while all the others have to share that other 50%. This is the speech I’ve prepared to tell my wife in the future, when I’m spending a majority minus one percent of my time with my clones.
-Jarod Kintz "This Book Has No Title"
A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, in the expectation that the other will do the same.
-Nicholas Sparks
"True Believer"
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
-Anne Taylor Fleming
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
-André Maurois
A woman is not property and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
-Robert A. Heinlein
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate but through being the right mate.
-Barnett R. Brickner
