Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I’m afraid it did.
love had to end in marriage | Bette Davis
At some point in our lifetime, gay marriage won’t be an issue, and everyone who stood against this civil right will look as outdated as George Wallace standing on the school steps keeping James Hood from entering the University of Alabama because he was black.
George Clooney | Gay, Marriage
The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.
Friedrich Nietzsche – Marriage
After mature deliberation of counsel, the good Queen to establish a rule and immutable example unto all posterity, for the moderation and required modesty in a lawful marriage, ordained the number of six times a day as a lawful, necessary and competent limit.
Michel de Montaigne – Sex, Marriage
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
Michel de Montaigne – Marriage
Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.
Marilyn Monroe on marriage and sex
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
George Eliot – Children, Marriage
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
Samuel Johnson – Marriage
Loveless marriages are horrible. But there is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage. A marriage in which there is love, but on one side only; faith, but on one side only; devotion, but on one side only, and in which of the two hearts one is sure to be broken.
Oscar Wilde – Marriage, Love, Faith
For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners.
Oscar Wilde – Marriage
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
Goethe – Love, Marriage
Their lives were ruined,he thought; ruined by the fundamental error of their matrimonial union: that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling.
Thomas Hardy – Marriage, Life
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
George Bernard Shaw – Marriage
The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast
Gabriel García Marquez – Marriage
Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.
