To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
-G. K. Chesterton
Quotations
Marriage
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
-Benjamin Franklin
Remember that children, marriages and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
-Mahatma Gandhi
Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.
-Oscar Wilde
"The Importance of Being Earnest"
Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new.
-J. Courtney Sullivan
"Commencement"
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"
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
