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
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
-Socrates
A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he's finished.
-Zsa Zsa Gabor
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.
-Douglas Wilson
In marriage, each partner is to be an encourager rather than a critic; a forgiver rather than a collector of hurts; an enabler rather than a reformer.
-H. Norman Wright
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
-Honoré De Balzac
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-Ambrose Bierce
I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he COULD be wicked and WOULDN'T.
-L. M. Montgomery
"Anne of the Island"
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
