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"
Quotations
Marriage
If he can't handle you at your worst then he does not deserve you at your best. Real love means seeing beyond the words spoken out of pain and instead seeing a person's soul.
-Shannon L. Alder
"300 Questions LDS Couples Should Ask Before marriage"
Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.
-Oscar Wilde
"The Importance of Being Earnest"
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
-Oscar Wilde
If you get bored with the person you married for love, there's something wrong with you - not with that person.
-Shahrukh Khan
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
-Agatha Christie
To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
-G. K. Chesterton
Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.
-Hendrik Hertzberg
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
-Erma Bombeck
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
