There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
Quotations
Marriage
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
If you both care for each other more than you care for yourself, your marriage will endure all.
-Lisa Tawn Bergren
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-Sacha Guitry
Oh, Lizzy! Do anything rather than marry without affection.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
In marriage, everyday you love and everyday you forgive. It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgiveness.
-Bill Moyers
A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he's finished.
-Zsa Zsa Gabor
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
-Honoré De Balzac
How can two people love each other, create children together, cohabitation, build a life together, and then end up hating each other in the end.
-Zane
The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.
-Jeffrey Eugenides
"Middlesex"
