It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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"
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-George Bernard Shaw
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
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"
In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
-Lucretia Mott
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-Sacha Guitry
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
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