If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
Quotations
Marriage
A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he's finished.
-Zsa Zsa Gabor
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-Helen Rowland
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
-Honoré De Balzac
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"
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years from the small acorn of passion into a great rooted tree.
-Vita Sackville-West
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habit and then complain that he's not the man she married?
-Barbra Streisand
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"
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
