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
Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.
-Douglas Wilson
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
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
Marriage isn't about Winning - It's about Lasting
-Mark Gorman
In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
-Lucretia Mott
When in a relationship, a real man doesn't make his woman jealous of others; he makes others jealous of his woman.
-Steve Maraboli
A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.
-Dave Meurer
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habit and then complain that he's not the man she married?
-Barbra Streisand
If you both care for each other more than you care for yourself, your marriage will endure all.
-Lisa Tawn Bergren
