Don’t be jealous if I spend 50% of my time with you and 50% of my time with others, because you get 100% of 50%, while all the others have to share that other 50%. This is the speech I’ve prepared to tell my wife in the future, when I’m spending a majority minus one percent of my time with my clones.
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
-Anne Taylor Fleming
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-Helen Rowland
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
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
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"
If you both care for each other more than you care for yourself, your marriage will endure all.
-Lisa Tawn Bergren
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-Anonymous
There is a French saying; Love is the dawn of marriage and marriage is the sunset of love.
-De Finod
An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
-Benjamin Franklin
