If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
Quotations
Marriage
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
-Anne Taylor Fleming
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
-George Bernard Shaw
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
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"
He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.
-Thomas Fuller
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
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
