Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
Quotations
Marriage
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"
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
-Erma Bombeck
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habit and then complain that he's not the man she married?
-Barbra Streisand
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
-Oscar Wilde
A woman is not property and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
-Robert A. Heinlein
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
The heart is like a woman and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.
-Peter Kreeft
"Jesus-Shock"
From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven, and when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, the streams of light flow together and a single brighter light goes forth from that united being.
-Baal Shem Tov
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
