If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
Quotations
Marriage
No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst that it inevitably changes.
-Lisa Kleypas
"Love in the Afternoon"
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate but through being the right mate.
-Barnett R. Brickner
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
A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
-Anne Lamott "Joe Jones"
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
Catholics don't believe in divorce. We do believe in murder. There's always Confession, after all.
-Diana Gabaldon
"An Echo in the Bone"
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.
-Thomas Fuller
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
