"In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape." ― Gerald Brenan Topic(s): Marriage More From Gerald Brenan "The cliche is dead poetry." "Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions." More In Marriage "I’m not a marriage expert, quite clearly."― Cathy Freeman "The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all."― Iris Murdoch "I was a bartender for a long time, so I know how to make drinks, but I’m more likely to offer them than to have them. I think this is one of the reasons why I get to live longer than my great-grandmother did, and why I get to produce more writing than she did, and why my marriage isn’t in dire straits."― Elizabeth Gilbert