"It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness." ― George Santayana Topic(s): Marriage Tags: appreciate, patience, takes More From George Santayana "The family is one of nature’s masterpieces." "I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads." "Wisdom comes by disillusionment." More In Marriage "The most important point is, in a time of crisis, there is no way out but for the government to be bold and aggressive."― Mark Zandi "What I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman, but what I also believe is that we have an obligation to make sure that gays and lesbians have the rights of citizenship that afford them visitations to hospitals, that allow them to be, to transfer property between partners, to make certain that they’re not discriminated on the job."― Barack Obama "Men go into marriage with virtually no expectations whatsoever. Ten years later, the men are delightfully surprised to find out that it’s actually kind of nice, and the women have sort of had to take a nose dive from what they thought it was going to be."― Elizabeth Gilbert