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"
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 is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-Anonymous
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
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 get bored with the person you married for love, there's something wrong with you - not with that person.
-Shahrukh Khan
It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession.
-Thomas Hardy
"Far from the Madding Crowd"
When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.
-Warren Farrell
I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he COULD be wicked and WOULDN'T.
-L. M. Montgomery
"Anne of the Island"
A woman is not property and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
-Robert A. Heinlein
