It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Quotations
Marriage
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
-André Maurois
A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.
-Dave Meurer
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate but through being the right mate.
-Barnett R. Brickner
When a woman thinks her husband is a fool, her marriage is over. They may part in one year or ten; they may live together until death. But if she thinks he is a fool, she will not love him again.
-Philippa Gregory
"The Other Queen"
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
-Anne Taylor Fleming
A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, in the expectation that the other will do the same.
-Nicholas Sparks
"True Believer"
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere.
-Groucho Marx
