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| Marriage is just legalized prostitution. Any man who says he hasn't paid for sex, has never been married! (Jessica Wood) | [▲] | [▼] |
| How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive. (Oscar Wilde) | [▲] | [▼] |
| When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs. (Oscar Wilde) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious. Both are disappointed. (Oscar Wilde) | [▲] | [▼] |
| There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own mind, and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own. (Charles Dudley Warner) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century. (Mark Twain) | [▲] | [▼] |
| God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if he finds her. (Benjamin Tillett) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder. (Jonathan Swift) | [▲] | [▼] |
| I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing. (Gloria Steinem) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Woe to the house where the hen crows and the rooster keeps still. (Spanish Proverb) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Marriage: a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves - making in all two. (Ambrose Bierce) | [▲] | [▼] |
| As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent. (Socrates) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them. (Syndey Smith) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives. (William Shakespeare) | [▲] | [▼] |
| It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make ita failure. (Herbert Samuel) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution. (Bertrand Russell) | [▲] | [▼] |
| A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever. (Helen Rowland) | [▲] | [▼] |
| I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage. (Will Rogers) | [▲] | [▼] |
| A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude. Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole and against a wide sky. (Rainer Maria Rilke) | [▲] | [▼] |
| This seemed a dreary and wasted life for a girl with fifteen years of straight A's, but I knew that's what marriage was like, because cook and clean and wash was just what Buddy Willard's mother did from morning till night, and she was the wife of a university professor and had been a private school teacher herself. (Syliva Plath) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness. (William Penn) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely. (William Penn) | [▲] | [▼] |
| What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please. (Ovid) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Well-married, a man is winged: ill-matched, he is shackled. (Harriet Ward Beecher) | [▲] | [▼] |
| The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship. (Friedrich Nietzsche) | [▲] | [▼] |
| When marrying, one should ask oneself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this woman into your old age? (Friedrich Nietzsche) | [▲] | [▼] |
| How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering. (Catharine Esther Beecher) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Marriage is an Athenic weaving together of families, of two souls with their individual fates and destinies, of time and eternity - everyday life married to the timeless mysteries of the soul. (Thomas Moore) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames. (Thomas Moore) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins. (Mitchell. Langdon) | [▲] | [▼] |