There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-Homer
"The Odyssey"
Quotations
Marriage
Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.
-Douglas Wilson
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"
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Ivan Doig
Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-Mae West
"The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said"
A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
-Anne Lamott "Joe Jones"
My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
-Rodney Dangerfield
Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere.
-Groucho Marx
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.
-Oscar Wilde
"The Importance of Being Earnest"
