“Marriage is not a love affair. A love affair is a totally different thing. A marriage is a commitment to that which you are. That person is literally your other half. And you and the other are one. A love affair isn’t that. That is a relationship of pleasure, and when it gets to be [...]

“The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.” – Oscar Wilde

“People who love only once in their lives are. . . shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.” – Oscar Wilde

“Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Marriage is not a noun; it’s a verb. It isn’t something you get. It’s something you do. It’s the way you love your partner every day.” – Barbara De Angelis

“Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree” – Oscar Wilde

“To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.” – Helen Rowland

“They asked her (Ruth Graham) did she ever think about divorce and she said, ‘No, I’ve never thought of divorce in all these 35 years of marriage, but,’ she said, ‘I did think of murder a few times” – Billy Graham

“Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.” – Bertrand Russell

“If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.” – Michel de Montaigne