Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate but through being the right mate.
-Barnett R. Brickner
Quotations
Marriage
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"
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-Sacha Guitry
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
-Agatha Christie
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"
Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
-Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The Scarlet Letter"
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-Helen Rowland
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
-Erma Bombeck
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
