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
I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
-Mahatma Gandhi
A woman is not property and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
-Robert A. Heinlein
The man may be the head of the household. But the woman is the neck and she can turn the head whichever way she pleases.
-Nia Vardalos
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
-Anne Taylor Fleming
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
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
-Oscar Wilde
If you both care for each other more than you care for yourself, your marriage will endure all.
-Lisa Tawn Bergren
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
In marriage, everyday you love and everyday you forgive. It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgiveness.
-Bill Moyers
