Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
-Honoré De Balzac
Quotations
Marriage
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
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
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
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 has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
-Erma Bombeck
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-George Bernard Shaw
Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.
-Henny Youngman
