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
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
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-George Bernard Shaw
There is a French saying; Love is the dawn of marriage and marriage is the sunset of love.
-De Finod
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-Ambrose Bierce
An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
-Benjamin Franklin
Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.
-Douglas Wilson
