Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest
 George Elliot
 
It is not the lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes an unhappy marriage.
 Friedrich Nietzsche

Love is the flower; marriage the fruit.
 Unknown

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other, but to unity in a relationship.
 Joseph Campell

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage,
and half shut afterwards.
 Benjamin Franklin

Every woman should marry ... and no man.
 Disraeli, Benjamin (1804–1881)

I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as would wear well.
 Oliver Goldsmith

Strange to say what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.
 Samuel Pepys

Marriage is nothing but a civil contract.
 John Seldon

Quotations about Marriage