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
Remember that children, marriages and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
In marriage, everyday you love and everyday you forgive. It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgiveness.
-Bill Moyers
A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.
-Dave Meurer
He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.
-Thomas Fuller
Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.
-Douglas Wilson
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
-Agatha Christie
A woman is not property and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
-Robert A. Heinlein
Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.
-Hendrik Hertzberg
