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
When a woman thinks her husband is a fool, her marriage is over. They may part in one year or ten; they may live together until death. But if she thinks he is a fool, she will not love him again.
-Philippa Gregory
"The Other Queen"
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
When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.
-Warren Farrell
A woman is not property and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
-Robert A. Heinlein
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
-Oscar Wilde
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
-Honoré De Balzac
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
