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
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"
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
-Oscar Wilde
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
-Erma Bombeck
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-Helen Rowland
In marriage, each partner is to be an encourager rather than a critic; a forgiver rather than a collector of hurts; an enabler rather than a reformer.
-H. Norman Wright
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
-George Bernard Shaw
Remember that children, marriages and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The true love is unconditional.
Marriage is a conditional bond.
-Toba Beta
"My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut"
