Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Marriage Quotations

Whoever strikes at marriage either by word or act undermines the foundation of all moral society.

Are we not also married to conscience which we would love to get rid of often enough since it is more bothersome than a man or a woman ever could become?

When married one has to get into an argument once in a while since in this way one learns about the other.

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity.

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

It is sometimes essential for a husband and a wife to quarrel - they get to know each other better.

When a wife has a good husband, it is easily seen on her face.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise.

Marriage is the beginning and pinnacle of civilization.