“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
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“I didn't know what true happiness was until I got married, by then it was too late.”
Unknown
“If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.”
Michel de Montaigne
“-I wish there was a manual for females [...]. -If there is, I haven't got my copy.”
Ordo and Kal Skirata (in Republic Commando: True Colors by Karen Traviss)
“I was a personality before I became a person. I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.”
Barbra Streisand
“Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
Robert Heinlein