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
An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
-Benjamin Franklin
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
-Agatha Christie
If you both care for each other more than you care for yourself, your marriage will endure all.
-Lisa Tawn Bergren
He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.
-Thomas Fuller
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
-George Bernard Shaw
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"
Never forget the nine most important words of any family:
I love you.
You are beautiful.
Please forgive me.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
-Lucretia Mott
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
-Oscar Wilde
