If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
Quotations
Marriage
There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-Homer
"The Odyssey"
Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.
-Hendrik Hertzberg
In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
-Lucretia Mott
You'll be happy if you'll remember that men don't change much. Women do. Women adapt themselves, and if you think that means they lose their individuality, you're wrong. Show me a happy marriage and I'll show you a clever woman.
-Elizabeth Cadell
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
In marriage, each partner is to be an encourager rather than a critic; a forgiver rather than a collector of hurts; an enabler rather than a reformer.
-H. Norman Wright
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
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
