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
Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
-Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The Scarlet Letter"
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
-Socrates
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
What we do for each other before marriage is no indication of what we will do after marriage.
-Gary D. Chapman
"The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate"
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
-Rita Rudner
Marriage isn't about Winning - It's about Lasting
-Mark Gorman
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Ivan Doig
He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.
-Thomas Fuller
