Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
Quotations
Marriage
My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
-Rodney Dangerfield
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"
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-Ambrose Bierce
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
There is a French saying; Love is the dawn of marriage and marriage is the sunset of love.
-De Finod
Marriage is more about work than about divine luck, more about finding someone to love than about finding someone to meet your own laundry list of personal needs.
-Mark Gorman
To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
-G. K. Chesterton
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
-Honoré De Balzac
