Age Quote by Janet Evanovich

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded. Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more…

— Edna Ferber

I don't know what kept us together. Initially, both of us were hotheaded, so we would end up fighting a lot. But there was…

— Soni Razdan

Love was not something that people married for generally in those days. They married for security. They married for economic reasons, you know, companionship…

— Sheldon Harnick

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

— Pearl S. Buck

It was finally becoming clear to her that love wasn't about finding someone perfect to marry. Love was about seeing through to the truth…

— Lisa Kleypas

Marriage has, for its share, usefulness, justice, honour, and constancy; a stale but more durable pleasure. Love is grounded on pleasure alone, and it…

— Michel de Montaigne

A good marriage ... is a sweet association in life: full of constancy, trust, and an infinite number of useful and solid services and…

— Michel de Montaigne

From my parent's generation the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love. It was a partnership. It's about…

— Aasif Mandvi

Marriage is so unlike everything else. There is something even awful in the nearness it brings. Even if we loved someone else better than…

— George Eliot

Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant; a marriage of interest, easy; and a marriage where…

— Joseph Addison

Marriage was contrived for ordinary people, for people who are capable of neither great love nor great friendship, which is to say, for most…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Marriage emerged some forty-five hundred years ago and evolved into a widespread and accepted institution that bonded families, maintained order, and created wealth. Unlike…

— Robi Ludwig