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
If you both care for each other more than you care for yourself, your marriage will endure all.
-Lisa Tawn Bergren
In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
-Lucretia Mott
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-Sacha Guitry
Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.
-Hendrik Hertzberg
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate but through being the right mate.
-Barnett R. Brickner
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
-André Maurois
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
-Honoré De Balzac
From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven, and when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, the streams of light flow together and a single brighter light goes forth from that united being.
-Baal Shem Tov
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
-Agatha Christie
