Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
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"
The man may be the head of the household. But the woman is the neck and she can turn the head whichever way she pleases.
-Nia Vardalos
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
-Benjamin Franklin
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
-Erma Bombeck
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
A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.
-Dave Meurer
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 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"
