A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
-André Maurois
Quotations
Marriage
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years from the small acorn of passion into a great rooted tree.
-Vita Sackville-West
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
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-Ambrose Bierce
Marriage isn't about Winning - It's about Lasting
-Mark Gorman
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
-Oscar Wilde
A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, in the expectation that the other will do the same.
-Nicholas Sparks
"True Believer"
Find a woman who makes you feel more alive. She won't make life perfect but she'll make it infinitely more interesting. And then love her with all that's in you.
-Gayle G. Roper
"Shadows on the Sand: A Seaside Mystery"
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"
