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87 marriage Quotes
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“The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes
“How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes
“People who love only once in their lives are. . . shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes
“Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life”
Aphra Behn Quotes
“To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.”
Helen Rowland Quotes
“Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. So each is inevitably disappointed.”
Albert Einstein Quotes
“More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.”
Doug Larson Quotes
“Why get married and make one man miserable when I can stay single and make thousands miserable?”
Carrie P. Snow Quotes
“Experience, though non auctoritee Were in this world, is right ynough to me To speke of wo that is in mariage. . . .”
Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
Source: Canterbury Tales--The Wife of Bath's Prologue
“Marriage is a wonderful invention; but, then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.”
Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
Source: Canterbury Tales--The Wife of Bath's Prologue
“The heart of marriage is memories.”
Bill Cosby Quotes
Source: Love and Marriage
“Lasting harmony with a woman (was) an undertaking in which I twice failed rather disgracefully.”
Bill Cosby Quotes
Source: Love and Marriage
“A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.”
Bill Cosby Quotes
Source: Love and Marriage
“What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder; God will take care of that.”
George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Source: Getting Married
“Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners were left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You can't have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?”
George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Source: Man and Superman
“Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.”
George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Source: Man and Superman--Maxims for Revolutionists
“My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.”
George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Source: Man and Superman--Maxims for Revolutionists
“I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.”
Gloria Swanson Quotes
Source: quoted in the New York "Times"
“Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.”
Gloria Swanson Quotes
Source: quoted in the New York "Times"
“The only way a woman can ever reform her husband is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.”
Gloria Swanson Quotes
Source: quoted in the New York "Times"
“It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.”
Euripides Quotes
“I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.”
Lord Byron Quotes
“However often marriage is dissolved, it remains indissoluble. Real divorce, the divorce of heart and nerve and fiber, does not exist, since there is no divorce from memory.”
Virgilia Peterson Quotes
“I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.”
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
“Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.”
Joseph Barth Quotes