A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
-André Maurois
Quotations
Marriage
In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
-Lucretia Mott
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-George Bernard Shaw
When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.
-Warren Farrell
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
-Anne Lamott "Joe Jones"
My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
-Rodney Dangerfield
There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years from the small acorn of passion into a great rooted tree.
-Vita Sackville-West
The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.
-Jeffrey Eugenides
"Middlesex"
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
-Agatha Christie
