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
The heart is like a woman and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.
-Peter Kreeft
"Jesus-Shock"
Marriage was not the combination of two entities into one; it was instead the creation of a third entity whose sole purpose was to soothe and inspire the two individuals.
-Christian Cantrell
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
-Rita Rudner
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
-George Bernard Shaw
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
-Agatha Christie
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
How can two people love each other, create children together, cohabitation, build a life together, and then end up hating each other in the end.
-Zane
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
