It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Quotations
Marriage
A woman is not property and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
-Robert A. Heinlein
There is a French saying; Love is the dawn of marriage and marriage is the sunset of love.
-De Finod
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
-Anne Taylor Fleming
Marriage was not the combination of two entities into one; it was instead the creation of a third entity whose sole purpose was to soothe and inspire the two individuals.
-Christian Cantrell
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"
An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
-Benjamin Franklin
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.
-Albert Einstein
I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
-Mahatma Gandhi
