It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Quotations
Marriage
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
-Erma Bombeck
A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.
-Milton Berle
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
Remember that children, marriages and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
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"
