Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
Quotations
Marriage
Oh, of course there's a risk in marrying anybody, but when it's all said and done, there's many a worse thing than a husband.
-L. M. Montgomery
"Anne of Avonlea"
Oh, Lizzy! Do anything rather than marry without affection.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
-Anne Lamott "Joe Jones"
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"
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"
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
-Lucretia Mott
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
A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he's finished.
-Zsa Zsa Gabor
