Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
Quotations
Marriage
Oh, Lizzy! Do anything rather than marry without affection.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
-George Bernard Shaw
A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
-Anne Lamott "Joe Jones"
In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
-Lucretia Mott
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
-Agatha Christie
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.
-Milton Berle
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
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
