(86 quotes found)
“Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.”
Helen Rowland
“Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty”
“A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - and endures all the rest.”
“It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.”
“Love the quest; marriage the conquest; divorce the inquest”
“Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.”
“A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little ''personal characteristics.''”
“A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.”
“A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.”
“Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.”