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
When a woman thinks her husband is a fool, her marriage is over. They may part in one year or ten; they may live together until death. But if she thinks he is a fool, she will not love him again.
-Philippa Gregory
"The Other Queen"
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-Ambrose Bierce
When in a relationship, a real man doesn't make his woman jealous of others; he makes others jealous of his woman.
-Steve Maraboli
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-Anonymous
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-Helen Rowland
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"
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"
My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
-Rodney Dangerfield
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Ivan Doig
