When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-Helen Rowland
Quotations
Marriage
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"
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-Anonymous
A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.
-Milton Berle
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
Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.
-Hendrik Hertzberg
Marriage is more about work than about divine luck, more about finding someone to love than about finding someone to meet your own laundry list of personal needs.
-Mark Gorman
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
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
