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
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
-George Bernard Shaw
The heart is like a woman and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.
-Peter Kreeft
"Jesus-Shock"
Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.
-Douglas Wilson
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
-George Bernard Shaw
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-Ambrose Bierce
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-Anonymous
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
-Honoré De Balzac
If you get bored with the person you married for love, there's something wrong with you - not with that person.
-Shahrukh Khan
