“Marriage… is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92)”
Source: Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor
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Joseph Campbell140
American mythologist, writer and lecturer 1904–1987Related quotes
William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English writer
"On Living to One's-Self" <br class="br"> Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/TableHazIV.htm (1821-1822)
Kenneth Tynan (1927–1980) English theatre critic and writer
"This going into Europe will not turn out to be the thrilling mutual exchange supposed. It is more like nine middle aged couples with failing marriages meeting in a darkened bedroom in a Brussels hotel for a group grope." - E.P. Thompson, "On the Europe Debate," The London Times (27 March 1975) http://www.bloomsbury.com/ARC/detail.asp?EntryID=104755&bid=5 <br class="br">Misattributed
Norman Mailer (1923–2007) American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film maker, actor and political candidate
News summaries (31 December 1969)
“Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.”
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi
Source: Letters and Papers from Prison
“Marriage is the cure of love, and friendship the cure of marriage.”
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773) British statesman and man of letters
Detached Thoughts http://books.google.com/books?id=vVdSAAAAcAAJ&q=%22Marriage+is+the+cure+of+love+and+friendship+the+cure+of+marriage%22&pg=PA384#v=onepage, first published in Letters and Works of Philip Dormer Stanhope, volume 5 (1847)
“Love is love, but marriage is an investment.”
Erica Jong (1942) Novelist, poet, memoirist, critic
How to Save Your Own Life (1977)