I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he COULD be wicked and WOULDN'T.
-L. M. Montgomery
"Anne of the Island"
Quotations
Marriage
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
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
-Socrates
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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"
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Ivan Doig
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-Ambrose Bierce
A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he's finished.
-Zsa Zsa Gabor
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
