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
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
If you get bored with the person you married for love, there's something wrong with you - not with that person.
-Shahrukh Khan
There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years from the small acorn of passion into a great rooted tree.
-Vita Sackville-West
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate but through being the right mate.
-Barnett R. Brickner
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-George Bernard Shaw
Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.
-Henny Youngman
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
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
