A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
-André Maurois
Quotations
Marriage
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-Helen Rowland
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"
The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It's followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again.
-Nora Ephron
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
-Agatha Christie
The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
-Gabriel García Márquez
There is a French saying; Love is the dawn of marriage and marriage is the sunset of love.
-De Finod
Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new.
-J. Courtney Sullivan
"Commencement"
Remember that children, marriages and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
