Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
-Honoré De Balzac
Quotations
Marriage
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
-Socrates
Find a woman who makes you feel more alive. She won't make life perfect but she'll make it infinitely more interesting. And then love her with all that's in you.
-Gayle G. Roper
"Shadows on the Sand: A Seaside Mystery"
There is a French saying; Love is the dawn of marriage and marriage is the sunset of love.
-De Finod
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-George Bernard Shaw
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
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 a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-Helen Rowland
