By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
-Socrates
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"
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
-Erma Bombeck
Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-Mae West
"The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said"
A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
-Anne Lamott "Joe Jones"
What we do for each other before marriage is no indication of what we will do after marriage.
-Gary D. Chapman
"The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate"
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
-Anne Taylor Fleming
A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.
-Milton Berle
