Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
-Honoré De Balzac
Quotations
Marriage
If you both care for each other more than you care for yourself, your marriage will endure all.
-Lisa Tawn Bergren
Oh, Lizzy! Do anything rather than marry without affection.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
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"
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
-George Bernard Shaw
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-George Bernard Shaw
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-Ambrose Bierce
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
-Oscar Wilde
The heart is like a woman and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.
-Peter Kreeft
"Jesus-Shock"
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
