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
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
-Agatha Christie
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"
Oh, Lizzy! Do anything rather than marry without affection.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
-George Bernard Shaw
A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.
-Milton Berle
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
-Honoré De Balzac
A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.
-Dave Meurer
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-Anonymous
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
