A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
-Anne Taylor Fleming
Quotations
Marriage
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
-Honoré De Balzac
A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.
-Milton Berle
He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.
-Thomas Fuller
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
-George Bernard Shaw
No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst that it inevitably changes.
-Lisa Kleypas
"Love in the Afternoon"
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"
Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.
-Hendrik Hertzberg
Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.
-Henny Youngman
I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
-Mahatma Gandhi
