It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Quotations
Marriage
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-Ambrose Bierce
Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
-Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The Scarlet Letter"
A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he's finished.
-Zsa Zsa Gabor
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
-Rita Rudner
Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.
-Hendrik Hertzberg
Catholics don't believe in divorce. We do believe in murder. There's always Confession, after all.
-Diana Gabaldon
"An Echo in the Bone"
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
-Mahatma Gandhi
The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
-Gabriel García Márquez
