It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Quotations
Marriage
Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.
-Hendrik Hertzberg
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
How can two people love each other, create children together, cohabitation, build a life together, and then end up hating each other in the end.
-Zane
In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
-Lucretia Mott
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
-Agatha Christie
Two people can only live as one when each is prepared to give and receive trust and understanding. Above that lies respect. Without respect for how the other feels, no marriage is worthwhile.
-Helen Hollick
"The Kingmaking"
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
-George Bernard Shaw
It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession.
-Thomas Hardy
"Far from the Madding Crowd"
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
