Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
Quotations
Marriage
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 woman is not property and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
-Robert A. Heinlein
Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.
-Oscar Wilde
"The Importance of Being Earnest"
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
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
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"
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-Ambrose Bierce
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
