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
Never forget the nine most important words of any family:
I love you.
You are beautiful.
Please forgive me.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-Anonymous
A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he's finished.
-Zsa Zsa Gabor
A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, in the expectation that the other will do the same.
-Nicholas Sparks
"True Believer"
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
-Oscar Wilde
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
Marriage isn't about Winning - It's about Lasting
-Mark Gorman
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate but through being the right mate.
-Barnett R. Brickner
I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
-Mahatma Gandhi
