It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Quotations
Marriage
It is not your love that sustains the marriage,
but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Letters and Papers from Prison"
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-Ambrose Bierce
The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It's followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again.
-Nora Ephron
The man may be the head of the household. But the woman is the neck and she can turn the head whichever way she pleases.
-Nia Vardalos
Some marriages are made in heaven, but they all have to be maintained on earth.
-Debbie Macomber
"Mrs. Miracle"
If you both care for each other more than you care for yourself, your marriage will endure all.
-Lisa Tawn Bergren
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Ivan Doig
The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.
-Jeffrey Eugenides
"Middlesex"
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate but through being the right mate.
-Barnett R. Brickner
