There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
Quotations
Marriage
An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
-Benjamin Franklin
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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
Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.
-Henny Youngman
The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It's followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again.
-Nora Ephron
Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.
-Douglas Wilson
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.
-Warren Farrell
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-George Bernard Shaw
