Remember that a successful marriage depends on two things: (1) finding the right person and (2) being the right person. Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred. -William O. Douglas. Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly. -Voltaire. Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic. -Helen Rowland. What makes a marriage last is for a man and a woman to continue to have things to argue about. -Rex Stout. I have always considered marriage as the most interesting event of one's life, the foundation of happiness or misery. -George Washington. A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendships, all the enjoyment of sense and reason - and indeed all the sweets of life. -Joseph Addison.