Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Ivan Doig
Quotations
Marriage
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"
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
-George Bernard Shaw
The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It's followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again.
-Nora Ephron
I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
-Mahatma Gandhi
My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
-Rodney Dangerfield
In marriage, everyday you love and everyday you forgive. It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgiveness.
-Bill Moyers
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate but through being the right mate.
-Barnett R. Brickner
Remember that children, marriages and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-Anonymous
