There is a French saying; Love is the dawn of marriage and marriage is the sunset of love.
-De Finod
Quotations
Marriage
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
-Jane Austen
"Pride and Prejudice"
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
-Socrates
Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.
-Hendrik Hertzberg
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Ivan Doig
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"
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
The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
-Gabriel García Márquez
An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
-Benjamin Franklin
In marriage, everyday you love and everyday you forgive. It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgiveness.
-Bill Moyers
