Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
Quotations
Marriage
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-Ambrose Bierce
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
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
-Oscar Wilde
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-Anonymous
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
-George Bernard Shaw
A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, in the expectation that the other will do the same.
-Nicholas Sparks
"True Believer"
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
A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.
-Dave Meurer
